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.
Capstan-Shanty
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740778
Would God I were the tender apple
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728128
Spiritual (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 753483
Gospelsong nach Dan 12, 1.5 (?) (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730177
Gospelsong (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730171
(using the Spiritual "Children, Go Where I Sent Thee") Spiritual (Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730165
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566816
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1714380
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1714353
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797651
Five classic pop ballads arranged for SSA choir with piano accompaniment.
The Novello Youth Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 132419
Traditional (Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730188
Only available in combination with choral score!
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 199340
Imaginations for Choir with Lyrics by Thomas Moore
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 633192
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352642
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 769234
for: Voice (baritone), children's choir (SA), strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 115129
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 444046
for female choir and water-tuned glasses
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA), glass harmonica
Choir score
Item no.: 634637
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285521
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 287139
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 177429
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1658973
from Hair
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1672971
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 697544
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 690699
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1156562
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1560820
for: Choir
Study book
Item no.: 613512
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 376463
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 932638
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 490829
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1031950
Symphony-Cantata
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 159564
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 633560
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 552653
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 585742
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260698
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564544
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 227299
for: Mixed choir (SATB), keyboard, bass
Score
Item no.: 634538
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 151245
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 158681
Folk Mass for mixed Choir and Soloists with Piano (Guitar), Bass and Drums
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 133773
for: Soloist (bass), orchestra; male choir (TTBB) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 375394
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 295995
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 857680
Oratorium für 5 Solostimmen (SSTBB), Chor und Orchester
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1681268
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