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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 776338
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 260322
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 584572
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962364
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 934782
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 584549
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864357
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 776474
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 582209
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 473316
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 214636
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 413191
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 213572
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 135670
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 193647
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864227
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 832119
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 304223
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850268
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822718
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196757
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 154693
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895938
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905509
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905497
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904005
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903725
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902798
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 902319
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902210
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901963
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901628
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901482
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901251
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899721
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899403
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820735
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 258285
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317367
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317330
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317302
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904282
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902526
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 901213
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900035
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317262
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