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: Choir, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 865126
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 866616
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1620767
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097186
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097183
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097095
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096937
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959701
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959606
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Score, Parts, CD
Item no.: 959273
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 608037
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960544
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097722
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097637
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097430
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097426
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097261
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 960089
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309520
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309494
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 178050
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
OTHER
Item no.: 293243
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873179
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 576761
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 361927
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280956
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202730
for: Mixed choir [women's choir], harp
Single part Harp
Item no.: 198584
for: Mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 200769
Soli für Sopran und Tenor
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 669542
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115967
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 826137
für Soli, Chor und Orchester Partitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part(n)
Item no.: 647167
Weihnachten
for: Choir
Study score
Item no.: 1539284
Adattamento Facile Per Coro A 4 Voci Con Accompagnamento Di Organo O Pianoforte
for: Mixed choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 998499
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 680486
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 444947
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 165262
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 475618
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560605
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 697295
per quattro cori
zwei Posaunenstimmen (Tenore Coro III und Tenore Coro IV)
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), 3 mixed choirs (SATB, SSAT, ATBarB), instruments colla parte, basso continuo
2 single parts
Item no.: 1667292
Süddeutsche Weihnachtsmusik Band 10
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 218509
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 334036
Weihnachtskantate
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 234566
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 424544
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 146571
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 457375
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