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.: 927167
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927127
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Buch
Item no.: 927112
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926972
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926396
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926251
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926086
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926018
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925785
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925699
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869603
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927253
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926945
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926745
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926089
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925965
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925195
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925400
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925267
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925202
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925055
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924528
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924478
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924105
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 923172
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 928173
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898838
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898627
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 898544
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897232
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897069
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 896878
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896588
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896570
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896559
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896434
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 896386
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896356
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896256
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896171
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 642125
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 318991
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 318582
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903881
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903049
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 902984
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 902562
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901957
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