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.
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Choir score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
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for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1002345
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811791
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Part 2 in C, 8va
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Voices
Songbook
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for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Soprano/Alto
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for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 310499
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Choir
Score
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for: Choir
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309168
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
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for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 472590
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Set of parts
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
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Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
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for: Women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235705
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
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Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
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Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
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Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
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for: Mixed choir, strings
Viola (orchestral part)
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for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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