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), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 349079
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388445
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680065
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274955
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) [6 voices] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335309
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 681512
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777756
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 215192
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1013007
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 321277
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382958
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155706
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 665215
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193177
An Opera in three Acts and a Prologue
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 749
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 365371
Altdeutscher Liederreim
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 681341
POP CHORAL SERIES
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 797548
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 375210
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 365427
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 488466
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 609885
Hob. XXII:14
Urtext
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 667692
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121311
mit Chorpartitur als Kopiervorlage
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 670168
Miserere, Benedictus, Dies irae
Série IV: Motets, Volume 3
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 668206
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 903606
Klassik
for: Children's choir, piano
Buch
Item no.: 269732
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 552186
Musik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts aus evangelischen Kirchen Münchens
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ, instruments ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 476252
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 427584
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 455661
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 236252
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 193810
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 797954
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 371697
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1670505
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820567
Action musicale
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 773985
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 676633
Oper in drei Akten
Kritische Neuausgabe nach den Quellen mit den nachkomponierten Rezitativen von Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 103708
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680203
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124874
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 180830
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 681261
svensk danslek for mixed chorus
score
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 168067
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 295312
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 491175
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