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
Choir score
Item no.: 673037
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2964
für Männerchor a cappella
Chorpartitur
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1608278
"As the Hart Pants"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 637950
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117247
for: Male choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117237
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117223
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 878462
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 587406
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 882756
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SABar), 2 trumpets, 2 trombones; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 615625
for: children's choir, small ensemble
Score
Item no.: 205968
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 189580
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539518
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539533
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1690281
for: Choir
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1157891
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1157704
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156261
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1156200
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1156115
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152943
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1152935
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1152934
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1152764
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1152762
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1152471
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1155430
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1155064
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1152288
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 1152127
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1151982
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1151947
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1155877
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1155742
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1153726
for: Choir
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1153522
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1153446
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1153308
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1153181
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1153076
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1154829
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 1154706
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1154652
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154523
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154462