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 (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 647225
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 632228
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307719
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309588
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002742
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002739
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003016
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810290
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811916
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809408
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807874
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806206
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 182021
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 362886
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 376086
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626138
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869322
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 886230
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003599
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1003071
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002096
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1192863
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022889
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814396
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812210
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810669
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805231
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 801797
for: Choir
Item no.: 880664
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804350
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 799953
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816276
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1021456
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 643708
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 579649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 645068
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 647568
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552087
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687303
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210130
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 870343
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 874818
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625632
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1703751
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 247135
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 365826
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 1024467
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