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), 2 violins, basso continuo; Glockenspiel [triangle] ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 777016
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 770259
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764838
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 675074
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675071
with a 2nd Benedictus D 961
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 552454
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 477276
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 993410
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 993326
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 993297
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 992622
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 992619
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 992609
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 992394
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 767523
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1007489
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 1006425
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 1006025
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 1005878
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 1005584
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 770505
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Viola da gamba 1
Item no.: 368669
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 341539
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 331361
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 634516
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 431186
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428321
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 427832
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 344600
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 299972
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 339190
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 165736
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 161788
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 679535
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 366318
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 456795
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 428810
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1170115
Cantata for the 5th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233468
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 478443
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 772168
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (ATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 781310
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 836380
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 645751
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Horn (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1660486
for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra
Urtext-Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 683279
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 1111970
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1108897
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