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 ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904292
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 189914
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 186461
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931876
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931177
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931174
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1326313
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168348
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168312
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984669
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799422
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168765
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168533
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168437
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002398
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985686
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985654
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985422
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985398
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984727
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168847
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002572
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002377
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965374
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 872230
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913359
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151815
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151330
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151183
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1151153
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160388
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160003
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1159192
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159056
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1158829
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157498
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1157454
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1156934
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1156514
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1156092
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155931
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154974
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153603
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152640
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152041
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1151053
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150283