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: Male choir
Item no.: 1702454
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 121928
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806698
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322057
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 171902
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317389
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317553
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 311982
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1612000
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 425284
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 143760
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 122957
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 327535
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 312588
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273856
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 291641
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156364
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1612001
"Stille Nacht" für Sopran solo und gemischten Chor (SATB)
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 681239
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1019904
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1617041
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985617
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1652953
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1159564
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984800
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984720
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984672
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 797033
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 198621
Christmas Carol
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817157
for: Children's choir, performer
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 443969
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 121923
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Performance score for winds
Item no.: 116872
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 186246
Sacred cantata
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 869359
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 314011
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1041664
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153610
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1150378
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1038724
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856619
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 618970
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917754
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857098
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919642
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919163
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159180
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1154593
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