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: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747874
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 446830
Gospelsong (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 753470
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1042971
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 320368
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317748
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807250
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 135373
A Christmas Cantata
for: Woman's voice, children's choir, mixed choir (SATB), piano, brass wind ensemble, 2 percussionists
Piano reduction
Item no.: 443695
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 630073
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 901434
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586689
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 873620
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691691
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 447040
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
10 scores
Item no.: 247271
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 910935
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 772266
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 673387
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343060
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 455894
Christams Cantata
op. 164
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 1697167
(For All the Children)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1701374
Chamber Orchestra Version
for: Voice (S/Mez), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 630488
for: School choir
Choir book
Item no.: 601502
29 carols for upper voices
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 434092
Arrangement for soli, choir and organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1017415
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 481480
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 185233
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 433324
Zwölf geistliche Gesänge op. 13 Nr. 7 SWV 426
Motet on the Gospel text
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 425214
Christmas motet
Cantus firmus "From Heaven Above"
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232585
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662035
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679020
Cantata for Epiphany
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 655809
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746061
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771067
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 662683
for: Women's choir (SS/SA), piano
Item no.: 372835
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 629102
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 solo voices], organ
Organ score
Item no.: 1669679
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317913
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645502
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1209886
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746052
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746048
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746047
A Partner Song with the Traditional French Carol
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano; hand drum, finger cymbals ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746023
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