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: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095860
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095841
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095768
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095726
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095716
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095703
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115639
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1102123
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096091
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1043210
Christmas cantata HoWV II.13
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 772202
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 679223
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 655256
Cantatas IV-VI
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 579646
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233082
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232956
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 472588
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Oboe 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236193
Cantata for the 1st day of Christmas
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233679
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233065
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 190375
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 344551
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 234207
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 680144
Mass with Christmas hymns
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 774740
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 678031
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234195
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234334
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237603
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Flute (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237552
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Single part
Item no.: 144980
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230708
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 230448
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 230012
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235988
for: Favorit choir (SATB), double chapell choirs (ATB/SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 232087
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), 3 mixed choirs (SATB, SSAT, ATBarB), instruments colla parte, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 424692
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236159
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 226129
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 175998
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Single part Organ
Item no.: 280478
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235062
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 301780
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 192248
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 824804
Donna Maria
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 583489
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 610402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 246291
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