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 a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 457379
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233066
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 486348
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097080
Cantata for the 1st day of Christmas
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233677
Ein Singspiel für die Weihnachtszeit mit Motiven aus Lukas 16,19-31
Die biblischen Singspiele von Ulrich Gohl sind ein Versuch, Kinder und Erwachsene mitgestaltend am Gottesdienst zu beteiligen.
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Set of parts
Item no.: 424009
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 370742
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608439
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608435
Weihnachts-Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets, strings, timpani, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 364727
Süddeutsche Kirchenmusik des Barock, Band XXXII
Erstdruck
for: 2 solists (SA), mixed choir (SABar), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 334677
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 797101
Geistliche Gesangsmusik 28~Organum Reihe 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 215808
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 552477
Magnifikat
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 230044
Weihnachtskantate
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 229925
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231175
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235821
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 242640
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 178529
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 615771
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125724
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124304
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124182
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085296
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085259
for: Choir
Item no.: 387973
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Flute
Item no.: 190145
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 298240
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125687
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125444
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609910
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 242907
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648364
Weihnachtsoratorium in zwei Teilen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 641396
“Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit“
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 772863
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621145
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824291
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762515
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938120
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936408
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 928446
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 908255
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906728
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906293
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906234
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 847588
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847602
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