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.: 1150249
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1149843
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1160281
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153885
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153488
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152047
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151480
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151325
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1156035
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154803
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1153100
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151702
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1150609
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1157640
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158843
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158801
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158759
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158546
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158189
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1157388
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1155603
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155597
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154425
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153933
Acht villaneske Lieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 462810
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 610072
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168289
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167302
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001395
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168325
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168322
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168320
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA)
Choir score
Item no.: 912145
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911753
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909418
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908145
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857097
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856934
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856817
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856699
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856609
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856605
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856591
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856575
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856491
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856457
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856232