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: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 617644
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 488700
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB)
Score
Item no.: 898743
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 472346
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 274350
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 274347
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 244548
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 227033
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343490
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341823
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777339
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768094
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 777429
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
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from Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746307
from The Greatest Showman
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746227
from Mary Poppins Returns
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745572
from Mary Poppins Returns
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 691656
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, cor anglais, bassoon, 4 trumpets, , snare drum, timpani, organ
Score
Item no.: 321285
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 302932
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 303565
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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Der Welterfolg aus „Sister Act“ (ohne Solo)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1677234
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
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Traditional Blues from the USA
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754639
Capstan-Shanty
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740778
Would God I were the tender apple
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728128
Spiritual (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 753483
Gospelsong nach Dan 12, 1.5 (?) (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730177
Gospelsong (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730171
(using the Spiritual "Children, Go Where I Sent Thee") Spiritual (Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730165
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
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