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), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317782
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660786
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 691404
(To the Stars...)
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1563140
A Grand Opera in Two Acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1560766
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660777
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSAT, ATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745673
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695976
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695451
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; trumpet ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 772234
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Piano score, 5 choir scores
Item no.: 632485
for: Mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, organ, small orchestra
Choir part
Item no.: 637729
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 634702
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 772271
for: Male choir (TBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 686027
Oratorio
Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (LMA Serie VI/11)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487164
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745012
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 696768
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285051
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638442
for Mixed Choir (SABar) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679271
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1544512
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 662375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903328
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627744
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 660019
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano score
Item no.: 656592
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 612585
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 584303
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285467
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 609036
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695449
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1021653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862062
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 154917
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 383020
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 382973
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 381505
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444419
for mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1566
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 680495
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), saxophone quartet
Choir score
Item no.: 657327
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), saxophone quartet
Score
Item no.: 655097
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 662854
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 481956
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628407
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 145600
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1628238
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628165
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