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.
Folk
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951488
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951467
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951392
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950934
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950926
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950916
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950907
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950887
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950880
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950878
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950869
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950831
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950796
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950762
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950753
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950746
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950742
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950737
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950727
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950701
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950698
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950686
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950677
O Clap Your Hands
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950672
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642910
Choral Signature Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra [organ]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1655341
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610172
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610125
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610111
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610019
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609963
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609784
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609730
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1612006
Wie der Kaiser zu seinem Vogel kam
Set (Klavierpartitur+CD)
for: Children's choir, instruments
Piano score, CD
Item no.: 585476
Acht Chorlieder zu zwei Stimmen
for: Children's choir (2 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 431234
Speravi in domino – Et extraxit me – Et posuit
op. 61d
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 683887
Omnia flumina
op. 54c
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 683884
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 379384
Faber Young Voices
for: Women's choir (SAA), piano
Item no.: 141964
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1086124
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126015
A Sacred Cantata based on Early American Songs
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124275
A Winter Service of Hope and Healing
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655697
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122177
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122144
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122113
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122108
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