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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 638741
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 458647
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 370948
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962262
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906784
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 554152
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 343164
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 649816
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532615
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1702426
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 317328
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 pianos
Score
Item no.: 185872
Christmas music
for three-part chorus, two violins and basso continuo
for: Mixed choir (SAB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 312496
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745225
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 663647
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309476
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 469799
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285534
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 884536
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 922672
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 695620
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1087069
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822487
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803236
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 1634291
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 945558
Feast of the Annunciation
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232691
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677223
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566716
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; piccolo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1566717
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 361608
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233930
Arrangement for organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1478480
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 778011
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 558382
Jonathan Palant Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330914
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1015480
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745995
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745959
Music from "Rondo alla Turca"
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745905
Helbling Choral Concert Series (HCCS)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 577681
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 1653728
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 1056872
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 681497
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 797645
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1326797
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532435
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