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 (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1093195
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914767
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916136
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106545
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1356013
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 1317708
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 910889
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932177
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911670
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907336
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907831
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 907823
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906632
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 905773
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1634911
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105422
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105400
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100884
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982799
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982771
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962304
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962254
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962252
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962070
Arranged for 2 sopranos and Piano
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 675126
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 565478
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 488609
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909577
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905898
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905029
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 276776
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 903009
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 901643
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317747
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317744
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317722
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317407
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317397
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317303
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318188
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318174
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318128
for: Narrator, youth choir, piano; melody instrument ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 692557
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), chamber ensemble
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 769249
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815728
for: Choir
3 Choir books (Hardcover)
Item no.: 822459
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 768127
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1317980
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