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
Piano score
Item no.: 673824
Zwölf geistliche Gesänge op. 13 Nr. 7 SWV 426
Motet on the Gospel text
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
– Graduated price on request –
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 232000
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 233079
Cantata for New Year
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 217131
for: 1–4 voices [choir], piano
Music score, CD
Item no.: 280949
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir book
Item no.: 123457
from "Josua"
for: 3 soloists (SSA/TTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 235507
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232953
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 343353
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 631523
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343059
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1611913
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769423
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551668
Sussex Carol
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 630744
Chorpartituren ebenfalls erhältlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663430
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652250
(2012/2020)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655361
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 566054
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746075
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746050
A Partner Song with "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746008
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745949
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; saxophone, vibraphone ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745929
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 769185
for: Women's choir (SA/SSA) [mixed choir (SAB/SATB)], piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass guitar, percussion) ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 565050
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476508
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quintet [piano]
Piano score
Item no.: 929176
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965399
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 875357
for: Women's choir (SSAA), cello, harp
Score
Item no.: 635813
for two-part choir and piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679905
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 429023
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 744861
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777432
Carols for Christmas
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745762
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808972
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812260
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019629
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019621
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 631728
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1668097
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678439
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798339
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 797716
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 671424
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SAA); guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 175310
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696490
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