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), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1641220
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 992460
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 362091
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811722
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813221
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810367
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811323
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002181
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001974
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003457
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003288
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003050
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 647639
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1178770
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115414
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115413
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764115
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 648480
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 236792
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341527
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342190
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342187
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 138252
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1703604
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violino piccolo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762465
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385524
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Single part Viola
Item no.: 343268
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 892821
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 768417
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159515
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1159250
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159956
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 187742
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 158231
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152877
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152685
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151820
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157165
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158017
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155304
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1156716
mit Einlagesätzen für die Aufführung zur Weihnachtszeit
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1684855
für gemischten Chor (SAM/SATB), Gemeinde und Orgel
Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685055
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1328116
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330519
for: Mixed choir, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 998523
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915249
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