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: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 624530
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915152
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1009141
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 303568
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909555
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909299
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001533
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121819
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159363
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937920
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 931711
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325715
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092254
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915892
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915572
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325553
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117119
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121471
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 851827
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100903
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116085
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985510
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159137
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1156790
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1151017
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155948
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 885152
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 648257
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 366810
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Choir part Soprano 1
Item no.: 308465
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157740
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 891887
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 874911
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212494
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 263679
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 395438
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