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
Score
Item no.: 314002
French Sacred Music
First Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 flutes, 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 170599
for: Mixed choir (SSABar), piano; rhythm group ad lib.
Piano score, playback download
Item no.: 633172
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477462
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476386
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 444226
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Paket
Item no.: 489689
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657610
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947674
for: Narrator, soloists, mixed choir, winds class [youth concert band]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1703128
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Item no.: 456692
for: Children's choir, narrator, actors, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663342
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 663334
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 246206
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 557413
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 396800
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732622
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598141
Christmas motet
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795678
Chorheft Nr. 10 - Lieder um den Tannenbaum
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751754
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751473
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751471
(Belgium)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726406
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722378
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340370
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338767
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339538
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339896
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339827
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377013
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373248
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375226
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375039
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375038
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375037
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376264
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373881
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373091
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373013
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375606
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374724
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374644
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374541
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761220
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596825
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599158
(Sweden)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756217
(Austria)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756206