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: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 172403
Like as the hart longs / Wie der Hirsch schreit
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235287
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779404
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore"
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 117052
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score, choir score
Item no.: 494217
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 432144
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; concert band ad lib.
25 choir scores
Item no.: 687356
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 607611
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116415
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 321280
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 465997
for: Choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 613828
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339308
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432664
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416698
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 563262
for: 2 voices (SA), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 244767
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 177653
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170192
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685471
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315136
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 189425
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 326420
for: Male choir (TBarBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 107215
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606057
for: Children's choir, instruments
Item no.: 136891
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117241
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383672
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; treble recorder ad lib.
Conductor's score
Item no.: 1558725
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432762
for: Women's choir (SS), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 479976
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 660890
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 151786
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602055
Messkomposition für Solo-Sopran, großen gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) und Band
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), violin, bandoneon [accordion], piano, double bass, drumset, percussion
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 674823
Trinitatismesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 667297
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1070235
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931515
"Gott! Auf Dein Wort erscheinen wir"
Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg 1
for: Mixed choir (SAB), 2 horns, organ
Score, CD
Item no.: 291882
für Frauenchor a cappella
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 613676
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 602348
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1530222
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607378
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 466892
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 658121
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