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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 893971
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330477
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901424
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 469901
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899554
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 898422
for: Voice (baritone), children's choir (SA), strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 115129
for male chorus a cappella
for: Male choir (TTTBarBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682465
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307896
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 831965
Imaginations for Choir with Lyrics by Thomas Moore
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 633192
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285521
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900825
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897383
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 888628
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 886345
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 868384
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 905776
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 895942
for female choir and water-tuned glasses
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA), glass harmonica
Choir score
Item no.: 634637
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532626
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532658
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777339
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768094
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 497532
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 876887
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 646069
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 302932
Five classic pop ballads arranged for SSA choir with piano accompaniment.
The Novello Youth Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 132419
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 676619
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 617644
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 377861
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811847
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 808795
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 346692
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 343116
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 295995
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777989
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797787
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 606803
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814338
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 806988
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 805890
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352642
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 214271
from Oklahoma!
Pop Choral Series
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762085
for: Mixed choir (SMezATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 851097
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