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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1684659
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1148343
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 862046
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 683601
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), chamber ensemble
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 769249
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564544
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 164418
Oratorio in three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 138371
from Hair
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1672971
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 376463
from Walt Disney Pictures Tarzan
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 487742
Folk Mass for mixed Choir and Soloists with Piano (Guitar), Bass and Drums
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 133773
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 808795
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1658973
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 618711
Cantata for the 7th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 673179
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1703580
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Piano score
Item no.: 1660808
Cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity B flat major BWV 98
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233523
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1611197
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 369775
for: Mixed choir (SSATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697425
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628406
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1618886
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1643062
a Comic Opera in Four Scenes
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1560741
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 886345
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285521
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562769
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SSAATTBarB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1549253
for: Mixed choir (SATB); guitar ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1715958
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1715952
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Score
Item no.: 692479
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 499108
Imaginations for Choir with Lyrics by Thomas Moore
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 633192
for: Voice (baritone), children's choir (SA), strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 115129
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Alto 1,2
Item no.: 209768
Madrigal for Mixed Choir with Piano or Orchestra Accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]; 4 soloists (SATB) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 304695
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865222
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638425
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695979
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 769234
Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, Urtext editions)
Item no.: 868775
Symphony-Cantata
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 159564
for: 2 soloists (ABar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1611349
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 871201
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 879393
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 629013
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