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: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142744
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123436
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123385
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124288
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324327
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952610
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917005
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1352974
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138186
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142498
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1136791
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1172743
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923704
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825493
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142670
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142361
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 827194
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1110948
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1541453
Turtle Creek Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125742
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952881
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1142099
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952770
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123650
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124037
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908094
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142609
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328114
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320298
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126678
Based on Daniel 6
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825400
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867911
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824394
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1142504
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1086229
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1142759
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953570
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124120
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952606
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1649900
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126608
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124776
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126630
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952910
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1142177
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329003
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125595