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 a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651781
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944858
Klassik
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964876
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746040
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; flute, hand drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746016
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745953
Music from "Rondo alla Turca"
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745907
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745903
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745902
for: Choir (3 voices), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696797
A Medley of Carols
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696644
Festchor zu Advent und Weihnachten
für SATB, Streicher und Orgel oder mit Orgel allein
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 674379
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 456469
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161319
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 810056
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807334
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806709
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 458505
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167295
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820604
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813227
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 809804
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777335
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 777334
19th Century Basque Carol
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745707
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 808372
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816650
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533097
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672412
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566718
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 955824
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 488906
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 488391
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 469914
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746057
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 862338
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 797715
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777331
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732578
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732575
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759119
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761201
text from an English folk poem from Napton, Warwickshire
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736973
Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt: Großbritannien und USA
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 739596
Gospelsong (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730161
Gospelsong (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730159
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 487619
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