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: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1150782
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SA), strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 477408
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 147950
for: Male choir
Item no.: 549641
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 433491
(Mel.: Wittenberg 1543)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746833
1. Bajuschki baju "Schlafe, Kindlein, tu dich legen" (Russland)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746819
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733251
Du hast, o Jesulein, kein Bett
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742413
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 638179
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 476051
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893612
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1355821
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586826
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308795
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985080
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168875
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798597
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1150528
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155664
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911580
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 260365
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916684
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912548
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003218
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir
Choir score
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 489139
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804007
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1153472
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1152636
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158802
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154251
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159844
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907203
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915102
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931011
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117246
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388219
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 646517
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121462
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 247288
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096913
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