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 (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5399
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 5245
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340167
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340108
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339895
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4032
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3560
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 3549
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 4045
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1162
Eight carols in German translation
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1566877
for: Children's choir, performer
Book
Item no.: 443967
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Book
Item no.: 677667
Cantata for Christmas Day
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1478379
Cantata for Christmas Day
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1478378
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 900042
Trumpet & Timpani Parts
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857380
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 918201
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124573
Graduale für die Weihnachtszeit für 4-stimmigen Chor und Orchester
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1657109
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126520
Flute Part
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918846
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938449
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1193373
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122966
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124061
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 857470
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 926013
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1107863
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126410
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169400
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125607
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918437
Orchesterfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 clarinets (B-flat), 2 horns (C), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 tenor horns, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 499741
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 795967
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 642066
Weihnachtliche Kantate für drei gleiche Stimmen, Solosopran und Instrumente
for: Solo voice (soprano), women's choir (SSA) [male choir (TTB)], instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 680135
Navidad en Latinoamérica 1
for: Women's choir (SSA/SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1015478
Weihnachtliche Motette für dreistimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 291070
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 479451
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 147575
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 151779
Krippenspiele, Weihnachtsmusicals und weihnachtliche Anspiele zu biblischen Geschichten
für Gemeinde und Schule
for: Children's choir, instruments
Book, CD-ROM
Item no.: 602893
in Nativitate Domini in nocte
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664364
Orgelfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 281935
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1023505
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 213762
Krippenspiel für Soli, Kinderchor und Klavier
Chorstimme mit Texten
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 655292
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