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 (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802305
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690859
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984625
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 862060
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816283
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864566
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166563
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 628268
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 364328
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556212
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 655659
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 681738
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 554094
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494232
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 478691
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 470988
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891330
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 673462
for: 1–2 voices [children's choir]; guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Songbook (melody, chords, lyrics)
Item no.: 1654330
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317661
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 920840
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920417
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920232
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196637
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771015
for: Children's choir, narrator, actors, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663344
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939506
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 617250
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 630899
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 625972
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 475180
for: Women's choir (SA), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 565844
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 477456
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 420025
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Item no.: 291848
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 209845
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 377036
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 376479
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 911594
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362850
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 374038
for: Mixed choir (SSATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 564267
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 477553
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476408
for: Choir, wind ensemble
Ensemble score
Item no.: 181095
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477412
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477409
for: Children's choir [women's choir], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 170588
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