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
Choir score
Item no.: 881294
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869817
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869081
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115423
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115339
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115159
Cantata for New Year's Day; Circumcision of Christ
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 797140
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 462472
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 444044
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432396
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210853
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 673259
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 695404
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 3 trombones, strings, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 192594
for: Choir, organ
Chorpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 880876
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 872394
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 870961
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 196271
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 195773
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 117581
for: Choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 117154
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 769838
New revised version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 761993
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 298275
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628269
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1031920
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1031910
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 645745
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 583324
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 171188
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano/Alto
Item no.: 122487
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 580521
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 680649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212599
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212588
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212582
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212554
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212553
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212551
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212521
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212504
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212502
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212500
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 865679
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 883206
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 880121
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1619729
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626187
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