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: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 376202
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 348168
Medley from "Whole Lotta Faintin' Goin' On"
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 347093
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 377857
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 157486
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 146293
for: Women's choir (SSMezAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 636144
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 168012
Lyric Fairy Tale in Three Acts
After the historical vocal score (1905)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1331553
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 373397
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (women voices)
Item no.: 493757
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1667046
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1655142
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 299406
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 361207
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 136280
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 980912
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 835519
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317310
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 870602
for: Choir (one voice) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 585416
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255900
for mixed choruses
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 564239
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1346419
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 962361
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 373553
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317518
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777567
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1042927
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 345066
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 154968
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100972
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 349387
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 876976
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; violin ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1160539
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 317788
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 333025
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 277292
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814130
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812138
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1544202
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 777481
for: Mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 559564
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 655290
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 884123
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906476
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1551263
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551261
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