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: Choir
Study book
Item no.: 144851
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901030
for: Choir
Music lesson book, demo CD
Item no.: 384966
for: Choir
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 158147
for: Voice [choir]
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 612610
for: Children's choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 675353
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Bass
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
2 Playback-CDs (choir part bass)
Item no.: 325916
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Soprano
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (Choir part Soprano)
Item no.: 299198
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Bass
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (Chorstimme Bass)
Item no.: 182315
"Coronation Mass"
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (Chorstimme Alt)
Item no.: 180674
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Tenor
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Playback-CD (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 143850
for: Voices (body percussion), drums
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 445042
for: Voice [choir]
Music lesson book (spiral binding)
Item no.: 198594
Favola musicale per bambini della Scuola Primaria
for: School class
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1022521
32 strumenti musicali da costruire in classe con materiali poveri
for: School class
Book, DVD
Item no.: 1023553
for: School class
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 1021847
I colori del ritmo
for: School class
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 1207642
Il Musical
Una storia quanto mai attuale da mettere in scena in un vero e proprio musical per ragazzi.
for: School class
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1023549
Motivationsimpulse für Musiker und Gemeinden
for: Children's choir
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1012463
Le possibilità, i limiti
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1317229
Canciones populares muy fáciles para voz, flauta o instrumentos en DO, piano, y percusión corporal.
for: School class
Music lesson book (anthology)
Item no.: 766910
Kanons und Quodlibets zum Einsingen in geselliger Runde
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 333979
for: Choir
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1022706
Giochi sonori e attività musicali
for: School class
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 776319
per cantare quello che non potremmo dire e non sappiamo tacere
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 776212
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Bass
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part bass)
Item no.: 560054
for: School class
Music lesson book, online audio
Item no.: 769082
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
4 Playback-CDs (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 682749
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 680097
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Playback-CD (Chorstimme Alt)
Item no.: 671890
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Playback-CD (Choir part Soprano)
Item no.: 671889
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
4 CDs
Item no.: 670146
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 658349
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 778827
for: Children's choir
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 559545
Süßmayr-Version
Practice-CD (mp3)
Choral Part Bass
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 663379
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 681114
op. 90/3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753992
Lukas 24,29
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733615
from "Catulli Carmina"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730987
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730971
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731022
HWV 56, 1742
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 817471
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 911423
for: Choir
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 161308
for: Choir
Study book
Item no.: 118390
for: Children's choir
Book
Item no.: 214371
for: Choir
Book, 2 DVDs
Item no.: 496595
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