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.: 330475
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738624
for: Children's choir
Teachers book, CD
Item no.: 847277
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532923
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 189533
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904149
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 625692
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319671
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087106
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087072
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 809075
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805422
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804523
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 602158
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 577881
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 604129
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812646
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 142900
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)]
Choir score
Item no.: 466337
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 778237
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 645854
Choral Exploration
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1701370
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672999
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1643155
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1634282
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1634280
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1634268
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1546473
for: Women's choir (SA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 679448
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 321633
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 465163
with piano accompaniment (Fragments from oratorios)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198591
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 806019
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850890
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808585
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 564059
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1672701
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 696721
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 890056
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 889202
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817294
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814119
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 810322
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 466543
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 366253
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343429
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