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 (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 641679
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 641117
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 641111
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 638765
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 637349
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 612102
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 608796
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score, choir score
Item no.: 606802
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 606698
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 620809
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 619918
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799690
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799648
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799604
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 799556
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799507
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799465
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799462
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 799452
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799442
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799428
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799422
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799406
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799199
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799198
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 692141
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Choir score
Item no.: 690390
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 586673
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586327
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 559304
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 558905
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556231
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556219
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 555996
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 555817
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 552776
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 241472
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 478147
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 348765
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 346198
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 341393
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 213157
for: Women's choir (3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801741
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801703
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801685
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801648
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