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: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116689
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 300342
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 225236
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 245932
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375729
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374735
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 586600
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 954108
for Solo Voices, Choir and Orchestra
Mozarts Fragment completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr
New edition based on original sources
KV 626 / SmWV 105
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432925
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 764961
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 192705
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 202019
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1012925
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1012929
Geistliches Lied 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203620
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1016399
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 149394
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576260
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763905
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 563691
for: 2 soloists (TBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 676722
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 380252
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 582871
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 637144
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762022
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 645383
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 289141
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 725107
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano 4 hands; winds, strings, bass, guitar, timpani, percussion ad lib.
Score, piano reduction, solo parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4938
for: Mixed choir (SSB), basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 5308
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2700
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2385
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324701
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 484665
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 662778
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 191203
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 solo voices], organ
Score
Item no.: 1946
for: Mixed choir (4–6 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 225612
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 344040
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 641345
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 475032
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 279901
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), cello
Score
Item no.: 315658
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 912904
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 332465
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 587120
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 165647
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