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.
19th Century Basque Carol
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1677158
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 165441
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 141818
Nine Carols for Mixed Chorus (SAM) and Organ (Piano)
for: Mixed choir (SAM), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 677065
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1349817
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771068
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 767650
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1559518
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690728
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205755
for: Choir (2 voices), piano, maracas
Choir score
Item no.: 1015080
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343054
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 982923
für gem Chor und Orgel
O kommt und seht das Wunder an|No costly Robes
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 630431
Faber Young Voices
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 183101
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 681181
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
Nach Sonate Kv 331
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445712
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652231
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746038
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745987
Music from "Rondo alla Turca"
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745906
for: Choir (2 voices), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696493
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 618791
for: Children's choir, instruments
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 616769
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 180829
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 120515
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965530
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1167590
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169619
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 681544
Holiday medley
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 673398
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019631
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017458
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806121
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805440
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 292966
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 181258
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746086
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746079
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746078
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679444
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 865866
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745941
Christams Cantata
op. 164
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 1697176
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760289
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747951
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747949
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747948