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 (SABar), piano; hand drum, finger cymbals ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746022
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745992
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745960
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745944
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 576569
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003476
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965424
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 929100
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 338615
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805221
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808578
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810380
for: Children's choir (2 parts), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 809522
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649581
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 377584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 810702
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 810685
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 810536
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798107
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 799215
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690607
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690110
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777479
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712072
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1712069
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943004
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 686922
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 864784
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663249
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746073
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Organ score
Item no.: 460518
Christams Cantata
op. 164
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 1697171
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 585863
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760288
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760284
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760278
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760258
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732580
for: Children's choir (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 6819
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3246
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809481
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 809191
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805734
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Choir score
Item no.: 1664612
Gospelsong (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730162
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 460566
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691643
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [chamber orchestra]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606145
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