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: 3 soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 555512
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATBB), Chamber ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 632340
for Choir and Piano
for: Choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 682742
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 638797
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745224
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1013012
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 677704
for soprano, mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
Hymn to Hebrew prayers from the Haggada
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 681722
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665538
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899599
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 894916
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1349816
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017453
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 464253
for: Choir
Music score, online media
Item no.: 814397
for female chorus (SSA) and piano
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 140449
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910520
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260768
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 160014
Erfolgstitel aus Sister Act
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 604315
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260606
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 683181
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [2 pianos, percussion]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 775546
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661149
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 443784
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 334081
Cantata for the inauguration of the town council in Mühlhausen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233183
for: Mixed choir (SSB) [male chorus (TTB)], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423224
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), violin, 3 violas, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 279213
Prüfungsliteratur
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1329761
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 666087
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777579
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 363735
for: Children's choir (2 parts), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 807880
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 564061
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 930219
Songs from the Earth
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663550
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 465132
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682881
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797794
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Choir score
Item no.: 857995
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 345875
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 475328
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 212597
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 866670
for: 2 voices (SMez)
Score
Item no.: 492846
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318186
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 777981
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