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.
Abendkantate nach Worten von Max Barthel
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano [string orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 644029
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 643295
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123488
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1121905
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823498
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1142276
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960107
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916070
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330595
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117158
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324495
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329048
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097281
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1175382
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110078
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097735
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960084
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095927
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110777
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 204330
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204150
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100599
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320535
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915461
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097640
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101270
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117153
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100676
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913952
Mark Foster
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125843
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985928
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325840
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1142758
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 474869
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 365695
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 366540
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 369063
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Item no.: 367776
for: Male choir
Item no.: 367644
Kor Spesial 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 367491
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 467735
Mapa Mundi
for: Mixed choir (7 voices) a cappella
Item no.: 459590
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 461396
for: Male choir
Item no.: 560608
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 462460
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Item no.: 576988
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 473222
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 491378
© 2004–2024 by Stretta Music. Order and buy sheet music online.
Your specialist for all kinds of sheet music. Online shop, sheet music, music scores and play along for download, books, music stands, music stand lights, accessories.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
United Kingdom