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 (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150368
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158619
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 380976
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano; latin percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1014369
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041662
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900413
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040931
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1004881
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 649111
for: Women's choir, piano
Item no.: 552121
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 494595
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 489462
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 279038
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983034
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 144081
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192398
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919276
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918593
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855547
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985201
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1167520
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151618
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156552
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150352
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160066
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154153
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1076946
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078253
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077623
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1679022
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 344188
Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 781651
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341792
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274625
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339837
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 326748
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1717206
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 620925
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806552
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1013741
for mixed chorus (SSATB) and chamber ensemble
set of instrumental parts (strings 4-4-0-4)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), string orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 683512
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376980
for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
Item no.: 1372580
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