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.
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 1656123
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1653186
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609532
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609531
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609529
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609298
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608436
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951421
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950448
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
komplettes Orchestermaterial
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 671649
Klassik
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 984431
Responsoria ad Matutinum in nativitate Domini MH 639
Urtext-Ausgabe
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 670505
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323419
A collection of carols for Advent and Christmas composed, arranged and edited by Nicholas Temperley
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 554950
aus: Magnificat octo tonorum
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 423725
ZWV 108
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235216
oder "Hirten auf dem Weg zur Krippe"
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Set of parts
Item no.: 336748
Lett For Kor 1
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 203685
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203654
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124209
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126404
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125717
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1124344
F-Dur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Organ reduction
Item no.: 237795
Magnifikat in A
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 237403
ZWV 107
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 236188
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 171231
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 297945
Faber Program Series
for: Women's choir (SSA/SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 552294
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297323
"in nativitate Domini"
Orchestral version
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 610790
with Angels We Have Heard on High
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124115
Offertory for Christmas
First edition
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 688078
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947136
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763329
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763301
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 763260
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764424
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764414
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764235
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763932
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934374
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 933560
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 933547
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935255
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938931
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938864
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936071
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