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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 758506
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 161607
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4232
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 3426
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766724
for: Women's choir (SA) [children's choir], organ [piano]
Score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 6151
Like as the hart longs / Wie der Hirsch schreit
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235287
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779404
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 432144
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; concert band ad lib.
25 choir scores
Item no.: 687356
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 607611
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 321280
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339308
for: 2 voices (SA), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 244767
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 177653
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685471
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 189425
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 326420
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 684743
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859597
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 563262
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315136
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score, choir score
Item no.: 494217
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 898892
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037921
for: Children's choir, instruments
Item no.: 136891
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 660890
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 660047
for: Mixed choir (SABar)
Choir book
Item no.: 559860
Lobgesang des Jean Racine Des-Dur op. 11
Stimmensatz (Org-6-5-4-3-3)
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649570
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233172
for: Choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 613828
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 107558
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 377398
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 299756
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 284037
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 186332
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984810
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214496
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432762
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416698
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902213
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 487430
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904441
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 682926
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817164
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