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.
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964843
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1356012
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103213
Hinshaw Music
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1634859
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982644
From The Becker Psalter
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149463
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039816
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105410
from Sing Evermore!
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1634306
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964809
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105331
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121088
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343041
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123796
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004544
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Choir score
Item no.: 1551213
Oper/Operette
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964848
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125936
Ec281
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105518
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121090
Weltlich
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1076679
Misa de la creación – Handbell edition
A Bilingual Setting of the Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, wind ensemble, rhythm group (piano, guitar, drums)
Score, solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 775046
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343072
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103173
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105446
Nr. 1 aus: Spirit Songs. Five arrangements for choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 677189
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100965
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1076692
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925843
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984628
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984621
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 906620
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 823389
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695894
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124889
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1053342
Jamaican Folk Song
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), handbells
Choir score
Item no.: 1556345
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 938721
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982870
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982627
Geistliche Lieder für Chor und Instrumente in flexiblen Arrangements
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Choir book
Item no.: 680207
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445701
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687206
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101324
for: Mixed choir (SAT), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588163
Lyric Collection of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103223
Oratorium für drei Solostimmen (STB), gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680589
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