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.
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Music score, online audio
Item no.: 815358
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803188
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777322
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777310
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 633130
Traditional Spiritual
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 697588
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 696933
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532746
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532742
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532582
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532439
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805319
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 647783
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777781
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777768
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 777726
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777722
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777569
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777499
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 777485
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 777420
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777403
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798092
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797826
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 797823
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 798167
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 798165
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 798163
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798149
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762079
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 761967
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 761964
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746349
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745764
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745647
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745214
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745212
from Beauty and the Beast
ShowTrax CD
Disney Choral
for: Male choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745120
Traditional Spiritual
Sacred Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745066
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 606803
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660645
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir (TTBB) and piano
for: Male choir, piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 1654250
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir (TTBB) and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 320606
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir (TTBB) and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 298290
On the street where you live
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 274349
for: Mixed choir (SAABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 473013
for: Mixed choir (SABar); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777923
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 626447
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