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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 214667
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 484968
for: Voice [choir/parish]; guitar [piano/organ/accordion] ad lib.
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 697012
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos, harmonium
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279296
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 281882
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 287315
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 337483
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 744882
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 550477
Latin Motets Choral Series
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 1677030
"Herr, Gott, dich loben wir. / Herr, dich bekennen wir."
Hymne
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [male choir (TTBB)], organ [piano]; winds ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 246296
Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 326421
Aus: Trois Chansons Bretonnes
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1080635
für gem Chor und Orgel
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 622009
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 323244
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 274458
Arioso aus "Cantata con stromenti"
for: Soloist (alto/baritone), mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; strings ad lib.
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 330931
Cantata for the Sunday of Septuagesimae
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233456
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610323
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 990885
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 363317
Erfolgstitel der Viel-Harmoniker
Originaltitel "Whispering"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 583572
for: Mixed choir, brass winds, organ
Score
Item no.: 561968
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424738
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 202035
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 331856
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801800
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 179474
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 471952
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 237737
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 370434
Passion cantata KV 42 (35a)
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 140633
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 850876
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1260077
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 779170
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2656
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814364
Eine rockige Reise durch die Galaxi
Gesamtausgabe
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 183581
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 612960
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 635616
religious and spiritual songs
Messe für Chor, Sprecher und instrumentale Begleitung (Klavier, Flöte/Violine, Bass, Percussion) ad lib.
mit allen Chor-Ausgaben verwendbar: SATB (SAAB), SSA, SA
for: Narrator, mixed choir; instruments ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 370740
for: 2 voices (MezA) [women's choir]; piano ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 4893
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 632309
for: Soloists, children's choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 820308
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416714
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 798003
for: Women's choir (smeza), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 327922
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142057
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