Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 491418
Weihnacht In Der Welt 9
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 377489
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 269104
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 203475
Silesia Cantat 26
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 164333
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 479659
for: Male choir
Item no.: 336525
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 336309
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 335103
for: Male choir
Item no.: 333769
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 146717
Sinfonische Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 640944
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824290
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 826276
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825785
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122414
Oratorium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1110279
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 131589
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 632712
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 128770
für die heilige Christnacht
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 371364
Together We Sing Series
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 649120
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1657065
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823526
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825664
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 176396
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 472592
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 242641
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 371993
Christmas Cantata with 14 choral songs from Latin America
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 1552235
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 314174
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953733
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1657042
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 375999
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364034
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609743
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933184
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934671
Melodie Popolari Elaborate Per Coro A 4 Voci Miste
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 990442
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 939203
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762502
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 907434
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764210
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762940
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762911
aus op.8 für Mezzosopran, Chor ad.lib. und Orchester
for: Soloist (mezzo-soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1043505
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609004
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 370571
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