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 (SSATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697425
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777989
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 262387
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Alto 1,2
Item no.: 209768
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score, Poster
Item no.: 417436
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Score
Item no.: 692479
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 499108
Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, Urtext editions)
Item no.: 868775
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690274
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 683601
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 164418
Folk Mass for mixed Choir and Soloists with Piano (Guitar), Bass and Drums
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 133773
for: Mixed choir (SABar); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777923
from Walt Disney Pictures Tarzan
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 487742
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768102
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 302932
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1534511
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982771
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 980985
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 321636
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319328
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319342
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 872203
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317747
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 895926
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 895906
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 908904
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 605130
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 322822
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964697
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1658973
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1560820
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815728
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701728
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 626447
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 364640
(from Les Misérables)
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 291365
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 497532
as recorded by both Snow Patrol and Leona Lewis
Words and Music by Gary Lightbody, Jonathan Quinn, Merk McClelland, Nathan Connolly and Iain Archer
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 459758
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 891796
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 323779
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 886827
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 322820
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322112
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906452
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Piano score
Item no.: 1660808
Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802773
for: 2 voices (SS) [women's choir], piano
Score
Item no.: 321637
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