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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 635209
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 370336
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 276279
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 328572
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 1557126
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 649498
Cantata for the feast of John the Baptist
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 673189
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686658
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423067
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 341359
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 885575
for: Mixed choir (SAT), piano
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 636472
for: Solo voice (Bass), mixed choir (SSATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1013019
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 349754
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423010
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 136693
Cantata for the inauguration of the town council in Mühlhausen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233182
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233890
for: Children's choir (one voice), mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ/ orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 364144
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 359631
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass winds, kettle drums, organ [orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 465767
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 327919
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1169977
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Score
Item no.: 187579
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 342930
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 194563
aus dem Musical "Tarzan", mit dt. und engl. Text von Phil Collins
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 622267
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1043014
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532624
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 781408
European Choral Music of the 19th Century
for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 669167
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 3141
for: Mixed choir, women's choir, piano 4 hands; percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 443696
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 770390
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 635063
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), big band
Choir score
Item no.: 327429
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 690192
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486949
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 344563
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 340227
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260770
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra, piano]
Organ score
Item no.: 687237
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1555996
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 816603
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 306791
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1011307
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 226264
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