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.
Missa De Angelis - Missa Brevis
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 989007
16 Canti al Vangelo per l'anno liturgico
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 988998
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 888749
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 902626
"Denk es, o Seele". Oratorium nach Worten großer Dichter
für Soli, gemischten Chor, großes Orchester und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 134162
Epistelmotette für den Sonntag Cantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116139
Zwei Liedsätze
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116087
Motette nach Psalmworten
Psalm 16/5-7
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115809
Dramatische Kantate nach einem Text von Robert Kothe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 102973
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 102868
Liedmotette nach einer Weise der Böhmischen Brüder
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115493
für Oberstimmenchor (SA) und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1652876
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 1652382
Klassik
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 984282
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1632539
for: Choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 387368
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386977
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1202188
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043157
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1202019
Chor TBB
for: Male choir, organ
Music score
Item no.: 1201839
for: Women's choir (SSAA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1200951
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 638151
HWV 283
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 341705
auch mit reduzierter Bläserbesetzung aufführbar
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 771651
(Karpowitsch)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 313340
Drei geistliche Gesänge (1968), Nr. 2
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196349
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196125
Inmitten weißen Schnees. Motette
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 196110
For S.A.T.B. Chorus and Optional Piano
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1619181
op. 19
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1587183
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620868
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1620830
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620810
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620801
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620758
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620693
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620690
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1620684
Traditional Irish Melody
for: Choir
Item no.: 1620677
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621346
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621345
From Through The Looking Glass
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1621339
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621332
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1621319
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621308
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621305
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1621301