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.: 842175
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 842133
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843408
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845906
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 845238
Kantate
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 493083
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1105852
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1147337
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1147165
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105632
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147839
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1147524
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148061
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147937
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147926
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148720
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843593
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 192993
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610216
Kleine Orgelsolomesse (Johannismesse)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189396
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 778458
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 778316
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 776942
for: Male choir
Book
Item no.: 964118
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1163999
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 993030
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 992812
for: Male choir (TBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850831
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 778620
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001750
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003524
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003523
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003477
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003463
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003434
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003408
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003365
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003239
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003219
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003205
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003170
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003135
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003023
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003012
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002929
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002880
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002727
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002615
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