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; soloists, orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 307780
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 307657
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681279
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 318908
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684984
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901098
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901092
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 744905
Dreistimmige Chorsätze für den Gottesdienst
Edition Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 559861
Weihnachtsmusical für Kinderchor und Ensemble (Grundschul-Musical)
Gesamtausgabe & CD
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score, CD
Item no.: 649863
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 137845
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 378149
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204885
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204821
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202330
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Partitur
Item no.: 147122
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280928
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 288531
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 908659
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 555884
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392278
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 768031
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 617247
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 142155
Weihnachtsmusical für Soli, Darsteller, Kinderchor und Instrumente
Text- und Liedheft
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 664272
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 813667
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 374683
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 294638
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 178455
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 409569
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 226667
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 191613
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309506
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Piano score
Item no.: 433051
for: Children's choir, narrator, piano; melody instrument, latin percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 697009
57 Choraufnahmen zur Advents- und Weihnachtszeit
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 499138
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Basso Continuo
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680779
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189405
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236156
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236154
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 148252
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559801
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Violine 1
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680775
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236157
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 210134
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559804
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189406
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