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
Item no.: 289031
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732697
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1530222
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607378
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 307745
Psalm 121,1-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725801
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 466892
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 660887
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 658121
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 479249
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 635928
1892
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 443510
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 155819
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1097922
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Score
Item no.: 106945
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 5892
for: Women's choir (SA) [2 voices], organ
Score
Item no.: 4589
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction (pdf download)
Item no.: 2657
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Buch + Online-Audio
Item no.: 1655765
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 120937
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 185471
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 388543
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 623815
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 431829
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 223901
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 170823
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634432
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 234930
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 765992
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 460809
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 578733
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 775056
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 422069
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
Oratorium Hob. XXI:2,
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 767530
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670728
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985699
Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233049
Opera in one act
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 777817
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 656576
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 229266
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 819788
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 172194
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 417440
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 564058
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), organ
Score
Item no.: 850666
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