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, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 365744
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936997
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937230
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 894218
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 279967
for: Solo voice (high), mixed choir (SSATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 692237
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932872
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 579219
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377017
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373665
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377703
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376419
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375377
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375050
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376232
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375955
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 672065
Weihnachtsoratorium (komplett, Urtextausgabe) (complete, Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 187752
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ score
Item no.: 276798
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 158136
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 308066
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 307656
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 307517
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648224
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 210135
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 cornetts [oboes/ violins], basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 166281
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 116271
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 681383
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166577
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382712
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1627876
for: Mixed choir (SABar), flute, oboe, strings
Set of parts
Item no.: 673663
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo; solo voice (soprano) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 172280
for: Children's choir, instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 409316
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 658873
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 618162
for: Men's choir [women's chori] (3 equal voices ) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 172634
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560261
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 352212
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 557422
With texts in Latin
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 490350
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 193599
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805537
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805995
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