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: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807774
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556212
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690859
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918687
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917955
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038479
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077045
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 617696
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 911594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 648467
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 661347
for: Children's choir [women's choir], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 170588
for: Mixed choir (SSATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 564267
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 422024
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 175174
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935162
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 565921
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 903317
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1015133
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204796
BuxWV 51
Chorpartitur
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 trumpets, bassoon, string orchestra [wind ensembles], basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 234356
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 610047
for: Mixed choir (SATB), oboe, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1023
Aus BWV 248 Nr. 42: Choral "Jesus richte mein Beginnen"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 759466
trad. seit 1850
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731847
Aus Ostpreußen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725403
Lieder des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725390
Str. 5: Köln 1574; Mel.: Frankfurt/Main 1569 (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744555
(Original 1 Ganzton höher) (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737824
Mel.: bei Bartholomäus Gesius 1601
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737818
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730714
Mel.: Böhmische Brüder 1661 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730062
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730044
aus op. 5; Mel.: Frankfurt/Main 1557 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753398
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753396
Mel.: 15. Jahrhundert; geistlich Erfurt 1524 (Epiphanias)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753378
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 948720
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2386
The Christmas Oratorio by Saint-Saëns in a fascinating recording.
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Audio-CD
Item no.: 603892
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 673462
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5702
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4389
for: Mixed choir (SATB), rhythm section [piano]
Piano score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 8045
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2334
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2328
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), organ [mixed choir (SATB), brass ensemble, organ]
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1278
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1219662
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 183143
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