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) a cappella
Item no.: 194668
Sound Of Norway
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 224589
for: Male choir
Item no.: 478407
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097660
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097102
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1557897
Mark Foster
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1126298
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824978
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824991
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097071
El Niño Dios
Altspanisch – Villancico
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1014482
für Solostimme (Sopran), gemischten Chor (SATB) und Instrumente
Chorpartitur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 684667
Ein Singen zur Menschwerdung Christi von der Verheißung bis zur Geburt. Nach Volksliedern f. Solostimmen, Chor, Sprecher u. kleines Orch.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 649632
für Solostimme (Sopran), gemischten Chor (SATB) und Instrumente
Klavierauszug
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 684678
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675705
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824298
Weihnachtsmusik für gem Chor, 2 Violinen und Bc Violoncello/Kontrabass
In Nativitate Christi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 655845
Weihnachtskantate
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 372907
für gem Chor und Instrumente
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, kettle drums, percussion
Set of parts
Item no.: 672493
"in nativitate Domini"
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237547
Kantate zum Sonntag Estomihi
für Solostimmen (SATB), gemischten Chor (SATB), Oboe, Violinen (2), Viola, Basso continuo
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 233939
Musique sacrée française
for: Mixed choir (SATTB), baroque orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 687549
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 557674
This is the truth
englisches Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 643669
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass winds
Item no.: 160532
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 463244
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455610
Urtext/Erstdruck
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 343736
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 343500
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 378214
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 377364
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 463155
Chorsaetze Alter Meister 161
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 373910
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 361876
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 301183
Feast of the Annunciation
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232698
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234336
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 229858
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607225
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 477468
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Percussion (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445044
Weihnachtskantate für zweistimmigen Kinderchor, Kammerorchester und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Children's choir (2 voices), Chamber orchestra, piano [organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 426174
per quattro cori
zwei Posaunenstimmen (Tenore Coro III und Tenore Coro IV)
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), 3 mixed choirs (SATB, SSAT, ATBarB), instruments colla parte, basso continuo
2 single parts
Item no.: 424808
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Trumpet 2
Item no.: 175999
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello [Basso continuo] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 293209
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123500
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122271
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122514
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