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 (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 230819
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 423725
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 770271
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 670505
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 444987
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 278005
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 291478
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 424155
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490788
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 230042
für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel oder für Orgel allein
Nach dem Urtext herausgegeben und mit einer Orgelbegleitung versehen von Albert Kupp
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 336058
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 238231
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 142155
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 237402
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB/SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 217137
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 189496
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 423980
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 423794
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 137845
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 288531
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 1741480
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 630765
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 374683
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1702804
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 773176
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 617247
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1267609
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1267606
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 133035
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1268016
for: Children's choir, narrator, piano; melody instrument, latin percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 697009
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377671
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377604
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373116
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375005
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374961
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374782
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373933
for: Choral
Item no.: 1372500
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Basso Continuo
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680779
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189405
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236156
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559801
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 148252
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236154
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Violine 1
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680775
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559804
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 210134
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