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.
Psalms 47 and 142
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445046
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 469907
for female chorus and piano (organ)
Texts by Nick Fawcett
Volume 2
for: Women's choir (SA), piano [organ]
Piano score
Item no.: 376641
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1149006
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 369317
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148749
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 473301
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183722
Opera in two acts op. 50
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302521
for: Children's choir (2 voices), pian; strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 361719
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198634
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 868008
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 177022
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 184466
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 886991
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 645793
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 136280
5th movement: Es sungen drei Engel einen süßen Gesang
for: Soloist (alto), women's choir, boys' choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746268
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 486704
for mixed choir (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1653956
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 207829
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 763139
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667236
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 685332
Oratorio
for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284222
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 147203
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1702809
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 202353
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 170209
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 338451
Hob. XXI:3
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697311
Cantata for Ascension Day
BWV 37
STUTTGARTER BACH AUSGABEN
URTEXT
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683068
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683029
Cantata for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany – "Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren"
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (revised edition)
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681136
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 677101
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657036
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 421945
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233629
for: Women's choir (SS/SA) [mixed choir (SSB/SAB)], 2 violins, basso continuo; viola ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 646425
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 584604
Wedding cantata
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666740
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 665326
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 662993
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661349
Cantata for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bachausgaben
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661119
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 497387
When Israel came from Egypt's land
MWV A 17
for: Women's choir (SSAA) [male choir (ttbb)], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 235335
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209089
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