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.
Eine Auswahl der schönsten Weihnachtslieder aus der ganzen Welt
for: Male choir
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 488363
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 911567
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 683188
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317298
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 556860
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 640875
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 181459
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 336853
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1212908
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116273
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 115685
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114788
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039492
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077429
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041047
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039633
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 456357
Neun Liedsätze für Advent und Weihnachten
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664168
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985442
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919502
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918432
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856000
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1156709
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1154190
for: Male choir
Choir book
Item no.: 161063
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 100614
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462412
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460520
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 616529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir book
Item no.: 608840
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 578332
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 475189
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471214
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667479
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812034
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 908029
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 635715
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663169
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477438
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477413
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 477459
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476403
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 479168
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 171680
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237598
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 169143
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