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.
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235823
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235822
from A World of Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825012
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123284
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122606
Mark Foster
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 826369
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126336
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 826655
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 293058
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126693
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 825347
Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 230244
ZWV 107
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Oboe 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236194
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236787
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823829
"in nativitate Domini"
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237550
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123317
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122330
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 556115
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459654
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 311972
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Trombone
Item no.: 291213
für Soli, Chor, 2 Trompeten, Pauken, 2 Trompeten, Pauken, Streicher und Orgel
Musik aus Ostbayern Heft 7a
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 446638
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 781070
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608998
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609912
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 232505
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1544095
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 195620
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 216030
Männerchor auf Worte G. Byron
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 776497
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 766821
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 579651
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Komplettes Orchestermaterial
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649782
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 234813
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608710
für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 174736
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 474597
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 847302
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764250
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764222
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 886463
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 849813
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843978
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843849
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938515
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 937310
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934483
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