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.
(Great Britain)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756222
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760285
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760262
for: Mixed choir (SATB), rhythm section [piano]
Choir score, audio file (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 8047
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), piano [keyboard]
Score
Item no.: 5012
for: Orchestra; mixed choir ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 867661
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1552748
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 488905
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 691706
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799542
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 458509
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 485908
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 460548
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1634891
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105509
for: Choir (3 voices); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1702441
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 649112
Austrian Christmas Carol
Kids & Teens Choir: The choral series for young voices
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1717355
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962253
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 886402
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 892139
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 191694
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 187650
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1643493
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 395443
for: Mixed choir (1–3 parts), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 680875
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 384922
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score (anthology), CD
Item no.: 329345
for: Mixed choir (SSSSAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691658
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 685939
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808775
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 216013
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 477062
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 660286
Oratorio fragment
Part I: The Birth of Christ; Part II: The Passion of Christ
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 578511
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 583345
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234735
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 619609
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233077
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155947
Feast of the Annunciation
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232693
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 615552
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 371889
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 672098
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 364438
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 611070
for: Mixed choir (SAB) [women's choir (SSA)], piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 486694
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696491
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