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.
Uns ist ein Kind geboren
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742451
Weihnachtsmusical für Kinderchor und Ensemble (Grundschul-Musical)
Gesamtausgabe & CD
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score, CD
Item no.: 649863
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599302
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599162
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 672089
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588209
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 589044
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587995
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596826
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594489
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591041
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591019
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590984
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590945
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590882
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590807
for: Mixed choir, 5 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590758
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598153
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598150
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1219659
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1232635
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 656089
for: Women's choir (SSA) [male choir (TTB)], piano [organ]
Choir book
Item no.: 164328
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1276413
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272638
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1264388
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 422184
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235090
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 235058
for: Women's choir (SS), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 425262
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 627287
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 621646
"in nativitate Domini"
Orchestral version
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 610790
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 463884
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Piano score
Item no.: 433051
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 294638
für 5 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
mit Anhang: 4 weihnachtliche Einlagesätze aus der 1. Fassung Es-Dur BWV 243a (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 378581
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Buch
Item no.: 314592
Offertory for Christmas
First edition
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 688078
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 644500
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 671649
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 618549
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 559861
known as "Messa per la notte di natale" / first edition
for: 3 soloists (TBarB), mixed choir (SATTB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765232
Version for choir of equal voices and chamber ensemble
for: Women's choir (1 part), chamber ensemble
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687452
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 234317
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