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: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273014
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 256690
for: Male choir (TBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255464
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255495
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1703200
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255202
for: Children's choir (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 850971
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850894
for male, female or mixed voices
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 314476
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 287504
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281944
based on the play "Uncle Vania" by A. Tchekov
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274633
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822648
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 579215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 373875
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 870764
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 552696
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 333478
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 910277
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324709
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 207360
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 911306
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 909961
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 880833
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323670
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 322114
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 884058
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 875872
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895098
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Buch
Item no.: 840912
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 158928
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904257
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 565497
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1024989
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 579131
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 561304
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432472
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 884659
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 863109
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 838285
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 905983
"Sparrow Mass"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 341294
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 3 trombones, strings, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 180733
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 117623
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116850
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 373867
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion, organ
Score
Item no.: 677683
from "Cantiones sacrae 1625"
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115193
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