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.
Sammelband; Die Motetten von Johann Ludwig Bach nehmen innerhalb ihrer Gattung eine herausragende Stellung ein. (Collection)
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 193770
for: Mixed choir, melodic instruments, rhythm group (piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion)
Choir book
Item no.: 632301
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 463471
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392108
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 616676
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 100622
completed and edited by Frieder Bernius & Uwe Wolf
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665327
Melodramma in quatro atti
2nd version (Paris 1865)
Opera Vocal Score Series (Ricordi)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389024
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389007
Commedia in due atti
Version in Italian and German
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558176
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 495276
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260576
Instrumental parts
Set: Piano, Gitarre, Bass, Percussion I, Percussion II, Percussion III
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 580559
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1017477
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564546
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 205041
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 188695
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732697
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725801
Oratorium Hob. XXI:2,
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 560221
for: Choral
Item no.: 1562365
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374786
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 5892
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2869
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction (pdf download)
Item no.: 2657
for: Women's choir (SA) [2 voices], organ
Score
Item no.: 4589
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 267926
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 172194
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 819788
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 681190
Opera in three acts
Critical new edition with the recitatives later composed by Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 103711
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 763305
Urtext based on the Complete Edition “Jean Sibelius Works” (JSW)
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340707
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 344592
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 102763
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 908342
for: Mixed choir, melodic instruments, rhythm group (piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, percussion)
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 619270
for: 2 voices (SA), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 154250
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 273565
First critical edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ [harmonium] ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684481
Eight songs for eight-part vocal groups
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 610870
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 282561
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 767530
KV 427 (417a)
Klavierauszug (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 116531
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634432
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 696380
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