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, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 613402
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 583194
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1059317
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 863333
for: Solo voice (soprano / tenor), mixed choir (SATB), piano, tambourine, castanets
Choir score
Item no.: 1014251
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 890408
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317716
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663793
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 610173
Det är en ros utsprungen
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691717
Christmas music
for three-part chorus, two violins and basso continuo
for: Mixed choir (SAB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 114753
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 692181
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 622442
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 922549
for: Mixed choir (SATB), small orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 648676
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1340548
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660792
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1559614
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 553510
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810945
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813029
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 804163
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343061
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 292465
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899627
(For All the Children)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1701375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891824
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 629846
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812287
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812127
A compelling retelling of the Christmas story
with Flute part
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SATB), flute, organ
Organ reduction, Solo part
Item no.: 692649
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1655214
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285451
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690688
for: Women's choir (SSAA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 771065
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662069
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1555547
Cantata for the Sunday after Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 3 recorders, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 499159
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp [piano]
Item no.: 1670515
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1659036
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 167469
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 234565
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 233929
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 210198
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 920600
A Joyful Celebration of the Season
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1690088
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1667567
A Litany and Anthem for Hanging of the Greens
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556291
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