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.
(Himmelfahrt)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753387
(Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753386
aus op. 5; Mel.: Hohenfut 1410, Erfurt 1524 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744553
(Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 736010
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733557
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730078
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730041
Melodie: Lyon 1557; geistl. Erfurt 1563; Str. 4 Lüneburg 1657 (Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730027
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 1678111
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 901203
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 607121
for: 3 voices (SAB) [mixed choir (SAB)], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1382
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 6104
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2463
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2387
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4115
for: Children's choir (SA), orchestra
Score, piano reduction, solo parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1450
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 664578
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Score, Choir scores, Single parts
Item no.: 657968
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 326986
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850737
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 798368
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807926
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 146912
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652991
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 1717080
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315068
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 556858
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 134954
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892429
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471623
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 148910
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628229
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490761
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 446865
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920349
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471215
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891694
for: Women's choir (SA/SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 577122
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 628272
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 312843
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893181
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 693316
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037965
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039906
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 878407
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078027
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1150699
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