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.
Psalm 127
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 608461
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234103
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675267
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 296365
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Single part bass
Item no.: 352269
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, narrator, flexible ensemble
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 326979
"The harp that once thro' Tarra's halls"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [harp, string orchestra]
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 375979
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1043712
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1024952
for: Mixed choir [children's choir] (3 voices), string quartet
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 103186
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1160975
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1160974
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Single part Zither 1
Item no.: 663268
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 1545324
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1703881
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Single part Viola
Item no.: 691335
for St. Cecilia's Day
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 488640
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623708
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 349308
Motet for two four-part mixed choirs and instruments
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 425828
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 493924
Cantata for the first sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623390
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 171878
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 341538
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 171886
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 171884
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 171634
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 677045
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Tuba (orchestral part)
Item no.: 677036
Dominicusmesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Oboe 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236650
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Horn (orchestral part)
Item no.: 874598
op. 147
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1689773
Oratorium für Gründonnerstag und Karfreitag
Reprint 1896
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1672744
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689774
Symphonisches Gospeloratorium über Jesus von Nazareth
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Trumpet 1 in B-flat (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689625
Symphonisches Gospeloratorium über Jesus von Nazareth
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689634
Festliche Liedmesse für gem Chor und Orgel (kleines Orchester)
Einzelstimme Violoncello/Kontrabass
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, parish, organ; brass winds, chamber orchestra ad lib.
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672042
Symphonisches Gospeloratorium über Jesus von Nazareth
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Trombone 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689639
Symphonisches Gospeloratorium über Jesus von Nazareth
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689633
Horn in F
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Horn 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1657267
nach Worten des Franz von Assisi
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 1701485
mit Solisten aus dem Chor und kleinem Instrumentalensemble
Große Fassung
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Flute 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670371
mit Solisten aus dem Chor und kleinem Instrumentalensemble
Große Fassung
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670363
mit Solisten aus dem Chor und kleinem Instrumentalensemble
Große Fassung
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670359
Bearbeitung für Chor und Kammerensemble
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 778354
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Kettledrum
Item no.: 1317010
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Single part Cello
Item no.: 1350864
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute [oboe/clarinet], piano
Instrumental part
Item no.: 656177
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