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 (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 696768
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 154917
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano score
Item no.: 656592
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 383020
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 382973
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 145600
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 660019
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 772271
for: Male choir (TBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 686027
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 778538
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 666042
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 381505
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695451
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695449
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1628238
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628407
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628165
for: 2 soloists (SBar), women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1558753
A Grand Opera in Two Acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1560766
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 662854
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317557
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1021653
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660786
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660777
(To the Stars...)
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1563140
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 417438
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 694836
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 765541
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 622034
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 777323
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 289971
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 480355
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 658381
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533007
(From Frozen II)
Music From The Movies
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 697383
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 687353
from The Greatest Showman
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 746225
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 746218
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745139
from Hair
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 697604
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691652
for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 680996
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 584291
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 612585
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745675
for: Narrator, male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 351312
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 584303
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 216012
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