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 (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799958
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 487538
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 361304
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 297952
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 145141
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984863
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 164266
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745325
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 770780
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 628997
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 3374
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1162490
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 807277
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1031921
Oratorio
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359617
From the King's Singers' Beatles album.
King's Singer's Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 478290
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260767
Vocal version
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1008621
Urtext Stuttgart Handel Editions
– Graduated prices on request –
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 686661
Cantata for the Purification of Mary or 3rd day of Easter
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), oboe, violin, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 683048
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 683043
Cantata for the 2nd day of Pentecost
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683040
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681005
Cantata for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bachausgaben
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681002
Church cantata – "Nun danket alle Gott"
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (revised edition)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680998
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679030
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 677222
Zwölf geistliche Gesänge op. 13 Nr. 7 SWV 426
Motet on the Gospel text
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 425144
Cantata for Michaelmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 424871
Cantata for the Sunday Septuagesim
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Graduated prices on request
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 233867
for: 4 mixed choirs, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 232177
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 421952
Cantata for Trinity Sunday
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674803
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 662040
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 635867
Cantata for the 1st Sunday after Easter
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 616055
D Dorian
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 499014
for: 2 soloists (AT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 605250
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605248
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 586088
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475479
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 235310
Cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233977
Cantata for the Sunday of Estomihi
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233800
Cantata for the Sunday of Misericordias Domini
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233705
Cantata for Reformation Day
Scripture Ps 84
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233293
Cantata for the 13th Sunday after Trinity – Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben – revised edition 2017
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233267
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