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.
Advents-, Weihnachts- und Winterlieder für junge Chöre / Klavierband
for: Women's choir (SA) [Mixed choir (SAM)], piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 770275
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167750
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889538
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667608
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1667166
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 894218
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893976
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890946
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 333326
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
4 choir scores
Item no.: 780468
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648224
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 495237
for: Male choir
Item no.: 472666
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 662157
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 659959
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 603479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806951
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937230
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 900109
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 279967
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1041324
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155828
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1038879
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904880
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460502
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 679510
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 578334
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471604
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 237463
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 236805
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596823
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594529
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595172
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595170
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595162
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 487718
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598140
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 599306
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289382
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289378
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 556862
for: Children's choir, instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 409316
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1316340
for: Mixed choir, piano
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 615811
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919701
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919693
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918548
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918165
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