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.
Six Body Percussion pieces for classroom and instrumental groups
for: Children's choir (School class /music school group)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 658271
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir book
Item no.: 495850
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 665330
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 641148
Cantata for the Sunday Estomihi
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683039
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460652
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 635721
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo; oboe ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 464812
Chorale cantata MWV A 7
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 235596
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 374606
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 574884
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; double bass, percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1343138
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155706
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 681512
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 578493
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 321277
Altdeutscher Liederreim
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 681341
POP CHORAL SERIES
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 797548
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 375210
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 365427
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 488466
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121311
mit Chorpartitur als Kopiervorlage
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 670168
Miserere, Benedictus, Dies irae
Série IV: Motets, Volume 3
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 668206
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 903606
Klassik
for: Children's choir, piano
Buch
Item no.: 269732
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 552186
Musik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts aus evangelischen Kirchen Münchens
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ, instruments ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 476252
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 427584
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 455661
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 797954
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820567
Action musicale
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 773985
Oper in drei Akten
Kritische Neuausgabe nach den Quellen mit den nachkomponierten Rezitativen von Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 103708
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124874
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 180830
svensk danslek for mixed chorus
score
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 168067
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 295312
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 758506
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 161607
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4232
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 3426
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766724
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779404
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; concert band ad lib.
25 choir scores
Item no.: 687356
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484479
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 326420
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859597
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