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) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309678
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 462264
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 112801
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809153
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803689
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280954
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSAA)
Choir score
Item no.: 204959
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204929
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204569
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280381
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273536
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 619114
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811751
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807397
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 198615
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 256664
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167392
Collected in Szeged by Sándor Bálint
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850286
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803561
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798468
für gleiche Stimmen
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 673296
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204817
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808200
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932552
(Critical Report)
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 433323
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807010
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586712
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803141
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 680768
Krippenspiel für Kinder und Tasteninstrument
Chorstimme inklusive Solo
Erweiterte Neuausgabe
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Choir part
Item no.: 657287
11 traditional European carols for Advent and Christmastide arranged for female voices SSAA a cappella
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1703393
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965683
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1276415
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289374
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594486
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594476
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594337
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594335
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272641
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272640
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1316124
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1316123
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1316122
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 672088
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596825
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598141
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 592586
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