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 (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939506
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 937223
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 937215
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934650
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934629
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936461
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 939057
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929884
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934122
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933663
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933605
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933172
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930833
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929424
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935481
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935404
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935162
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911585
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910303
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909816
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 901465
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 899530
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906994
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905727
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903224
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 896353
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941903
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940637
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942805
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946214
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943515
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764447
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 764418
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 764417
A South African Christmas Anthem for S.A.T.B. Chorus and Piano
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1618585
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374262
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376265
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376263
aus Band 15/3 der GA
Monteverdi GA
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166563
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373880
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373666
op. 2578
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445630
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373115
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376696
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/3
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 610047