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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125306
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124836
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634711
A Celtic Christmas Celebration
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121228
(StudioTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1126476
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 245357
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122747
from The Voices of Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126425
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125634
Together We Sing Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122878
12 traditionelle Weihnachtslieder
für dreistimmigen gemischten Chor (SAB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 1043025
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122189
Deutsche Weihnachtslieder
in leichten 2-stg. Sätzen mit Gitarrenbegleitung (inkl. CD)
for: 2 voices [choir]; guitar ad lib.
Ensemble score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 622186
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1656107
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126109
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122197
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
(latein)
Item no.: 1681470
Messe für die heilige Christnacht
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 195030
D-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645378
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609497
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609489
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609746
12 Canti natalizi per coro a più voci ed organo
for: Mixed choir, organ
Book
Item no.: 990159
für gemischten Chor und Orgel (Klavier), optional Blechbläser (2 Trompeten, Horn und Posaune)
John Festerman und den Old North Singers gewidmet
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 380901
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 419909
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652407
Heinz Tust
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115074
Ein schönes Weihnachtslied nach der bekannten bolivianischen Volksweise „El Condor Pasa“.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662827
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656476
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 656474
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 924263
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933225
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932870
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 932252
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930496
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934417
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933935
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912082
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910631
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910181
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 909350
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 937840
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 940664
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939420
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 939347
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934667
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