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: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 335340
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 335327
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 284195
'Lutheran Mass'
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, bassoon, violone [double bass] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430736
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 430554
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 475827
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142737
Choral–Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1161907
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 1160881
for: Mixed choir (4 voices), orchestra
Item no.: 122478
(with Shout to the North)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 645892
Accompaniment Tracks
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123202
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123465
Listening CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124330
D 105
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Trombone 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237065
Music Of The Great Churches
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 341515
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 341394
Symphonic version (1900)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 477316
Symphonic version (1900)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin (orchestral part)
Item no.: 477314
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 465211
Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 673156
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 366079
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Item no.: 365796
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 549493
Ein Singspiel über Lukas 2,1-20
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Set of parts
Item no.: 231385
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1136528
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124243
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1172492
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114253
for: Male choir
Item no.: 304091
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910860
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910586
Congratulatory Cantata for the Birthday of Duke Christian of Saxony-Weißenfels and of Duke Ernst August of Saxony-Weimar
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 473482
Freudenklänge, Festgesänge
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043018
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122948
Studiotrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 824721
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1656806
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126820
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126071
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125101
from Footprints in the Sand
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125068
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125063
from Ceremony of Candles
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124775
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124699
from The Rose of Calvary
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124596
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124434
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123870
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123328
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