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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685471
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; concert band ad lib.
25 choir scores
Item no.: 687356
Einzelabgabe ohne Chorpartituren nur mit Antikopierpunkt!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 557772
Opera in three acts
Critical new edition with the recitatives later composed by Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 103711
Dramma giocoso in two acts KV 588
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116427
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378814
Arrangement for women's choir
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 605266
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; double bass, percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 446152
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1136633
Reduced Version
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 174025
WWV 63
Fassung 1842-1880
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 614666
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 581093
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 586545
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120388
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 297870
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765579
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2034
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123406
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; soprano saxophone ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 194351
The Requiem, completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr, in its traditional form
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674935
for: 3 soloists (SSB), mixed choir (SATB), cornett, 3 trombones, strings, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5847
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205426
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116577
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142055
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382592
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1012535
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205427
(Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 287131
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1612022
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196723
for: Choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 333173
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558777
"Resurrection"
New revised edtion based on the Critical Edition of 2010. A separate textbook with historical essays and a critical report in German and English is enclosed
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 579442
'Coronation Mass'
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116578
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 609825
for mixed chorus a cappella score
with piano part for rehearsal
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670070
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579886
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 359630
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389149
Sieben Gedichte nach Federico Garcia Lorca
for: Mixed choir (SATB), guitar
Choir score
Item no.: 428581
Operette in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128161
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Item no.: 131292
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142058
Operetta in three actes
Allowed reprint (1906, Doblinger, Wien)
spiral-bound
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1203304
around 40 choral settings for SATB, some with piano accompaniment
editionchor
- Graduated prices on request -
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 682691
Cantata for the Feast of Ascension
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 621647
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 603586
Songbook for Male Vocal Ensemble
for: Male choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 649520
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