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: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [strings, organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 175507
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309680
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764115
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1627477
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552090
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 886516
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 138735
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 242758
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Partitur
Item no.: 204639
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625641
for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 354649
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811722
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810367
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809503
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807419
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1330774
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811323
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809221
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804164
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 768417
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115414
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115413
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1192951
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Single part Violin
Item no.: 1741483
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 685603
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Single part Viola
Item no.: 343268
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 327061
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476859
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 424111
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136798
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 580618
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 364016
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 290981
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237779
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 229963
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 797078
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets, strings, timpani, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1160933
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236165
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233081
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424302
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235662
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234192
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237551
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237549
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237548
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 236792
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234332
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