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 (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931873
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 926090
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925886
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925858
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924081
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916410
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915983
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915671
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914864
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913479
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911021
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906012
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905659
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904916
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904724
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 926224
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925850
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924061
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341530
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341521
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341510
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341491
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341474
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341470
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341466
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 949038
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 949036
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 674487
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 346452
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 337079
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 296534
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 229273
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 213784
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 210777
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193730
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342897
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1005176
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1331378
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923954
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342249
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342224
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342216
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342183
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342163
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342127
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342070
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342060
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342013