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: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 433579
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 313183
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 562571
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 474878
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 892559
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471600
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1551785
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308911
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308907
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308873
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 205526
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 867621
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 645022
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 445391
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913749
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085380
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002149
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154299
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153604
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 912608
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100716
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317269
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117121
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324723
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324699
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151986
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152807
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151271
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149824
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1151525
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1153385
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1153098
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326100
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325524
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101330
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097230
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097489
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960420
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959372
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764118
Cantata for Christmas Day
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1543987
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 772161
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Harpsichord [organ] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675556
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675551
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 351882
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir part
Item no.: 354648
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160603
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 281174
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