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: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2336
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Score
Item no.: 2316
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813524
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810843
for: Mixed choir [male choir]
Item no.: 455482
for: Choir, wind ensemble
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1671348
Auszug aus der Kantate "O quanta in coelis laetitia exuberat"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 738476
aus dem Bamberger Gesangbuch fon 1670
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731846
Engel singen hierzulande
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725410
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733556
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730710
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730709
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730708
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730070
Halle 1708 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730060
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730045
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753810
Engel-Terzett aus dem "Elias"; Text: Psalm 121 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753401
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753392
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338827
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339783
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1337998
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339549
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339537
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338702
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1338534
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 471736
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471755
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 171902
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 131832
Singt und klingt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746933
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), string orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 683503
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893828
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 290823
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 171758
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737195
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760315
Aus Böhmen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725406
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (piano reduction)
Item no.: 218210
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 346358
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1057482
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002484
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984800
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917754
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857098
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856619
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919642
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