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), organ
Item no.: 584684
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825429
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825136
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 377905
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Item no.: 376672
Eine herrliche, glanzvolle, nicht schwere Messe. Mit Credo.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra]
Set of parts
Item no.: 378058
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 376074
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 429593
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 375610
A Due Cori
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score, Parts
Item no.: 479235
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 368180
Based on 1 Corinthians 16:13
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126645
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124863
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124431
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111714
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111471
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110580
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320559
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319776
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326229
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326121
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325716
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387763
for: Male choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134112
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 336808
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 335340
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 335327
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 284195
'Lutheran Mass'
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, bassoon, violone [double bass] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430736
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 430554
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 475827
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097161
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096891
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095757
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142737
Choral–Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1161907
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 1160881
Ode to St Cecilia
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1340594
New Completion
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1340585
Ferrara 1595
New Gesualdo Edition 3
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1316940
auf Gedichte von Georg Trakl
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 133695
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 868798
Cantata for Easter
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1692303
Walzer nach Hugo Durst
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 122492
for: Mixed choir (4 voices), orchestra
Item no.: 122478
Singspiel
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 231273
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231230
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230248
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