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: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 353783
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494232
for: Women's choir (SSMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 289195
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204992
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204811
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204809
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204804
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204796
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 617696
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 610047
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 911594
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771015
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1203817
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1618585
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 874036
for: Mixed choir (SSATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 564267
for: Children's choir, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 499257
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 294187
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459735
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196637
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 342780
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334062
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 772777
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 409507
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2–3 parts)
Score
Item no.: 409323
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 strings/ 4 recorders]
Ensemble score
Item no.: 409312
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 661347
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 283395
for: Mixed choir (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 1199138
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 378879
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117227
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 195735
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 681738
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 632995
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 648467
Der Lobgesang der Maria (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115706
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445630
for: Children's choir [women's choir], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 170588
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362850
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166563
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 243424
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670933
Quintet Collection
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 919458
SATB and Piano, 4 Hands
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Choir score
Item no.: 1107939
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903795
Ausgabe in D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 669510
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 854757
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 918095
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