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.
(New Edition)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122077
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122075
for: Children's choir, band
Scores, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1664980
for: Male choir
Item no.: 551059
Chamaeleon
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 151837
Gesamtausgabe, Bd. 19
for: Women's choir [male choir], piano
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 426184
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/15
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 658460
Getoente Texte Auf Dem Weg~Neue Kantaten Aushannover
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Item no.: 471050
Estonian Classics
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Conductor score
Item no.: 159303
nach Texten von Heiner Müller
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 366863
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
CD
Item no.: 1018177
Ein Singspiel über 1. Mose 3
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 231451
Musik der "Swinging Islands"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 157991
Neue Kantaten Aus Hannover
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 443423
Blues-Variationen für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 472763
Leichte Chorlieder für allerlei Geselligkeit
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 332894
for: Voice [choir], piano
Item no.: 433655
für drei gleiche Stimmen (SAA), Orgel oder 3 Klarinetten
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 160688
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 472139
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121354
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121299
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445710
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 583734
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 195666
A Communion Setting
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832092
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124142
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 290832
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1596236
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1596235
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1549485
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609570
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609560
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609501
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609472
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609442
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609428
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609393
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609389
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609248
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609229
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609186
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609152
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609092
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609058
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609052
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608997
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608914
Gesù bambino
Wunderschönes Lied von Pietro Yon (O lasset uns anbeten) mit deutschem Text
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 662829
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