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.
from "Catulli Carmina"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730987
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730971
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731022
HWV 56, 1742
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 817471
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 911423
for: Choir
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 161308
for: Children's choir (one part), piano; melody instrument ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1633839
for: Choir
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 631313
for: School class
Journal
Item no.: 778212
for: Choir
Music score
Item no.: 291700
for: Children's choir (School class /music school group)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 664540
for: Choir
Study book
Item no.: 118390
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Soprano
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 373896
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Soprano 2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part soprano 2)
Item no.: 301437
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Soprano
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 301264
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Tenor
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
2 Playback-CDs (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 299185
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Soprano
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 104030
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1012746
for: Children's choir
Book
Item no.: 214371
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 359628
for: Voice [choir]
Study book
Item no.: 413076
for: Choir
Book, 2 DVDs
Item no.: 496595
for: Voice [choir]
Music score
Item no.: 473324
Grado elemental
for: School class
Music lesson book
Item no.: 769521
Para descubrir el lenguaje musical cantando, escuchando, tocando...
Descubrir, explorar, crear
for: School class
Teacher's manual, online audio
Item no.: 769447
Per lo studio della teoria musicale
Se la teoria musicale vuoi imparare sempre a tombola devi giocare
for: School class
Music lesson book
Item no.: 972679
nella Scuola di Base
for: School class
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1023922
Corso completo di educazione musicale con giochi e quiz per scuola primaria e scuole di musica
for: School class
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1544041
20 Canti popolari europei arrangiati per coro di bambini
for: Children's choir
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1023554
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 1207643
for: 2 soloists (mezzo, baritone), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Playback-CD (Choir part Soprano)
Item no.: 664908
La vocalità jazz come mezzo d'educazione musicale e corale.
Guida e repertorio
for: Choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 775526
for: Choir
Music score
Item no.: 333924
Grado elemental
for: School class
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 765801
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 563558
for: Women's choir, piano
Piano reduction (2 piano's)
Item no.: 773936
for: Children's choir
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1556090
for: Choir
Students book
Item no.: 765489
for: School class
Students book
Item no.: 765352
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 389412
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Tenor
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 482959
for: Voice [choir]
Music score
Item no.: 215588
for: School class
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 769080
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 658347
Symphony cantata
Practice-CD for choir singers
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (Chorstimme Bass)
Item no.: 697315
Motet BWV 227 – "Jesu, meine Freude"
Practice-CD (mp3)
Choral Part Alto
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 692501
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
Practice CD for choir singers – Edition for tenor
mp3 format
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
4 Playback-CDs (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 680545
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 680091
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