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 (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814884
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816373
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812993
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812643
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815895
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815894
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815893
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815852
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1015098
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803036
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803316
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804130
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803842
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802336
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802334
weihnachtliche Meditation
mit singenden Gläsern
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1011483
for: 5 voices (TTBarBarB) [Male choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 616570
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 775045
Fantasie für Sinfonisches Blasorchester
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 489173
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 208362
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158132
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1549308
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 619394
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 680829
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798988
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 304357
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 117128
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 382445
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 624516
Chorheft Nr. 7 - Weihnachtslieder der Reformation
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733358
aus "Messe in B-Dur"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751943
1. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern 2. Vater unser im Himmelreich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751561
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759118
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760320
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760314
(Chile)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756220
(Spain)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726420
(Slovakia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726419
(Czech Republic)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726409
(Bulgaria)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726407
(Congo)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726398
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722384
Five christmas songs
for: Women's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 795708
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765975
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125741
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4446
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4386
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4130
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