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 (SSA), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 688971
for: Women's choir, organ
Item no.: 416492
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 119602
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 260763
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1316343
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1316120
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1316118
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588210
1. Kindelein im Stall "O Jesulein, o Gottes Sohn"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740070
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5846
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1219658
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2292
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1882
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 2422
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4435
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4120
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 456086
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1076856
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855745
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 556839
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077960
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1077453
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1705
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1626
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1372
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3996
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3980
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 3555
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass winds (10 parts) [organ]
Score
Item no.: 820293
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1140
for: Children's choir, piano
Partitur (Klavierbegleitung)
Item no.: 617788
(Latvia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726416
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747950
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759116
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751463
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592558
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 592554
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 woodwinds (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591030
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590916
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590818
for: Mixed choir, 5 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590770
for: Mixed choir, 5 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590763
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594527
for: Choir, String orchestra; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596831
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596818
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598139
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595173
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595171
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