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 (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1257980
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music, Download (mp3)
Item no.: 1232647
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929673
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556436
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 233062
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 180043
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 552475
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 371465
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 1012739
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160602
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 607799
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423399
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), 3 mixed choirs (SATB, SSAT, ATBarB), instruments colla parte, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 424267
for: Children's choir, melody instrument, piano
Score
Item no.: 424103
for: Children's choir
Item no.: 279170
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697302
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 676717
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 490276
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 580416
Mass with Christmas hymns
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 556869
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 601423
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 245391
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235044
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 236101
for: Soloist (bass), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 463926
for: 2 solists (SA), mixed choir (SABar), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 334673
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 272524
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 229852
Christmas cantata HoWV II.13
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 772199
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Score
Item no.: 632581
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1267607
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1267600
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 375595
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 368084
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 300197
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 242960
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 234310
French Sacred Music
First Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 flutes, 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 232185
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 423977
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 231423
for: Mixed choir, strings
Choir score
Item no.: 230776
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043477
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 673456
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423016
for: Women's choir (SS/SA) [mixed choir (SSB/SAB)], 2 violins, basso continuo; viola ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 422132
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 234561
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 217819
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 136748
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