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.
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1193925
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 609251
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 609887
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607815
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 606784
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 606782
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 606778
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 470566
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Partitur, Ausgabe A
Item no.: 457286
The Ultimate Gospel Choir Book
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 455621
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 455602
for: Male choir
Item no.: 455536
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 445357
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333477
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 430916
for: Male choir
Item no.: 367672
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 370077
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 636855
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126814
Mark Foster
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124985
for: Male choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 302599
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 302558
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 301571
Steig´in den Keller
Weinlied im Volkston
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 681189
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043914
Französisches Volkslied
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647122
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 998608
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 301159
Steuermann, laß die Wacht – aus der Oper "Der fliegende Holländer"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 301145
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 555192
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA), piano
Item no.: 332098
for: Women's choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 331285
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 327881
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 330815
for: Male choir
Item no.: 329368
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 582213
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364065
for: Male choir
Item no.: 362702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 492420
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 374691
for: Male choir
Item no.: 374314
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 343289
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 606189
Fröhliches Trinkliederpotpourri
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 372893
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 339725
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 348072
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 196829
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 195742