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), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 184469
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), keyboard [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 5011
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5003
HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550475
for: 2 voices (SS) [women's choir], piano
Score
Item no.: 321637
Five classic pop ballads arranged for SSA choir with piano accompaniment.
The Novello Youth Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 132419
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1317709
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 377861
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318174
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 488609
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 876887
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 646069
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 982679
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897960
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 768127
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 364497
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 369775
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317744
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 489747
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 477052
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, cor anglais, bassoon, 4 trumpets, , snare drum, timpani, organ
Score
Item no.: 321285
Arranged for 2 sopranos and Piano
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 675126
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 444046
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317303
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962252
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 911425
for: Choir
Study book
Item no.: 613512
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 297950
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1317980
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 1317708
for: Choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982625
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318188
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 676619
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 641120
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087175
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087078
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087077
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984505
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984502
Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, Urtext editions)
Item no.: 868775
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 158681
from Hair
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1672971
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 658659
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 683601
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 672456
Oratorio "Christus am Ölberge"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686996
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260772
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1703580
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