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 (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 930412
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 345282
for: Women's choir (3 voices) [male choir]
Score
Item no.: 621009
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 631783
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317728
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317510
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Vocal score, Choir score
Item no.: 317321
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 1212798
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 780538
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), percussion
Score
Item no.: 656882
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 455890
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322010
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 898298
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1541642
Krippenspiele, Weihnachtsmusicals und weihnachtliche Anspiele zu biblischen Geschichten
für Gemeinde und Schule
for: Children's choir, instruments
Book, CD-ROM
Item no.: 602893
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932755
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 188490
Aus „Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel“
auch mit unterlegtem Text von: Weihnacht, frohe Weihnacht
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 604319
for: Soloists, children's choir (one voice), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 377033
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477424
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1703621
for: Children's choir [women's choir]
Choir score
Item no.: 181768
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 641236
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 107218
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 615892
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663805
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 474882
for: Women's choir (SSAA/ SSA/ SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1697181
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 631521
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 208999
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 343091
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867732
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 768979
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 671145
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114738
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 372536
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 226632
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 772231
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 215874
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 148308
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 380699
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382689
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633885
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 158137
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 430844
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116209
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115786
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