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), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 193810
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484479
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 607611
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Score
Item no.: 778348
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 797954
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 295312
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 377398
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 371697
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607377
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 308203
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1670505
Theme from Songs of Sanctuary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 466853
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 898892
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 326420
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339308
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779404
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315136
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 684743
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214496
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695812
Cantata after Psalm 103
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633906
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820567
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902213
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984810
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904441
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4232
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: Women's choir (SA) [children's choir], organ [piano]
Score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 6151
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 3426
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859597
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 107558
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore" KV 339
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 375732
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore"
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 117052
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 681261
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117241
for: Women's choir (SSA), strings
Score
Item no.: 656579
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score, choir score
Item no.: 494217
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 161607
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170192
Action musicale
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 773985
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214245
for: 2 voices (SA), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 244767
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; treble recorder ad lib.
Conductor's score
Item no.: 1558725
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 189425
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 321280
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606057
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 563262
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