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 (SATB), piano, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 673235
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 580628
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 473336
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1043483
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 643760
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 556111
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 262341
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557078
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1120920
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1118071
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor; the parish, orchestra, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1043617
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ solo
Choir score
Item no.: 797926
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 580608
for: Male choir (4 parts)
Choir score
Item no.: 123915
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 478444
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 311758
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin (orchestral part)
Item no.: 604476
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1690085
for: Children's choir, instruments
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1672730
Cantata for the 13th Sunday after Trinity – Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1671146
Swiss Composers Series
for: 2 soloists (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1671542
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor, 2 Klaviere und Pauken ad lib (arr. S. Bartmann)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos; timpani ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1689709
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124624
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126306
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142743
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1086025
dalla villanella alla cantata, Pian & Forte Vol. 202
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1163458
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953072
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867923
Shawnee Press Cathedral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824934
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1142108
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142326
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912688
für gemischten Chor (SAM/SATB), Streicher und Orgel
Spielpartitur Violine 1/2
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Violin 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678908
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1193366
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1141914
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 827179
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1171641
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142744
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123436
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123385
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124288
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324327
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952610
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917005
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1352974
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138186
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