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 (SAM) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 682433
Choralia
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 131709
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 953332
VOCES8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1012994
(To the stars...)
State motto of Kansas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746387
Cantata for the feast of John the Baptist
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 673189
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA/SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 216114
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 370336
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423067
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 341359
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 775382
Volume 2
Urtext – Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB) (partial with soloist, piano)
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 611533
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423010
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 775378
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 812217
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Choir score
Item no.: 187580
Entstanden zwischen 1965 und 1970 für verschiedene Schauspiel- und Zeichentrickfilme
in estnischen Kinderzimmern ein Klassiker
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 649498
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695535
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 432477
for: Mixed choir (SAT), piano
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 636472
Cantata for the inauguration of the town council in Mühlhausen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233182
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233890
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 311651
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 328572
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 635209
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 359631
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 120510
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 885575
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260620
for: Children's choir (one voice), mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ/ orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 364144
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 349754
Mit Klavierbegleitung zu Übungszwecken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 327919
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 136693
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 1557126
for: Solo voice (Bass), mixed choir (SSATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1013019
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 661154
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1169977
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (Version in a minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683036
für Sopran solo, gemischten Chor und Bigband
Die Chorpartitur enthält auch den Solo-Sopran
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), big band
Choir score
Item no.: 327429
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1043014
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 781408
aus dem Musical "Tarzan", mit dt. und engl. Text von Phil Collins
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 622267
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 306791
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 672951
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Score
Item no.: 187579
for: Mixed choir, women's choir, piano 4 hands; percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 443696
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 342930
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 690192