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: Male choir
Item no.: 372346
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 311380
Choral aus der Kantate Nr.147 BWV147
für gem Chor und Orgel Streicherset (3-2-1-1-1)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 660842
für Gemeinde, Vorsänger, gemischten Chor, Jazztrio und Orgel (oder Bläser)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, organ [wind ensemble], rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums)
Single part bass
Item no.: 660383
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825218
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824678
für Frauenchor (1-2 Soprane) und Klavier Partitur (dt/en)
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
CHP
Item no.: 630332
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 577553
nach Gedichten von J. W. v. Goethe
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 577552
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261787
2004/05
für Bariton solo, gemischten Chor, Gemeinde, Trompete, Tenorposaune, Schlagzeug und Orgel
Sonderanfertigung
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), parish, instruments
Choir score (for the parish)
Item no.: 469851
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 460654
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 460653
Evangelien-Rockmotette (Latin) zur Konfirmation
Motette Nr. 1 aus "Sieben Rockmotetten nach den Evangelien"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Set of parts
Item no.: 673112
Evangelien-Rockmotette (Shuffle) zum Erntedankfest
Motette Nr. 3 aus "Sieben Rockmotetten nach den Evangelien"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Set of parts
Item no.: 673106
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671627
für Kinderchor, gemischten Chor und Basso continuo (Instrumente ad libitum)
Urtext
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SSSS), mixed choir (ATTB), basso continuo; mixed choir (SATB), melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Part 1
Item no.: 670899
op. 54 (1871)
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 668507
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 340501
Settings from Scotland
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 470075
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 362983
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 347578
12 Lieder für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 617506
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 349060
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 472894
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Klavierauszug
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1616047
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325474
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1102940
Auld lang syne
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334017
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Item no.: 584695
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584694
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 584684
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825429
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825136
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 377905
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Item no.: 376672
Eine herrliche, glanzvolle, nicht schwere Messe. Mit Credo.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra]
Set of parts
Item no.: 378058
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 376074
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 429593
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 375610
A Due Cori
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score, Parts
Item no.: 479235
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 368180
Based on 1 Corinthians 16:13
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126645
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124863
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124431
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387763
for: Male choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134112
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 336808
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