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.
(In The Bleak Midwinter)
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 635663
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678412
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678411
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678342
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts, CD
Item no.: 846711
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745869
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745851
with piano accompaniment for rehearsal
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745732
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745702
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745699
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745679
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 211832
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 692938
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701344
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556281
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 487589
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 302398
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 931016
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771334
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 628929
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 223660
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 930113
for: Choir
Music score
Item no.: 929591
for: Mixed choir (SSAT) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333766
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1549147
Der Löwe schläft heut' Nacht
for: Soloist, male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 485108
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 941742
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 941432
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 929035
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930555
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 904542
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), violin solo
Score
Item no.: 1652436
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for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1660554
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; soprano saxophone ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1690503
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1086995
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 823587
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169381
for: School class
Choir score
Item no.: 815615
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532744
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532584
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532574
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654714
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1654515
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1654513
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805147
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 804947
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777316
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777307
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