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
Set of parts
Item no.: 945144
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 911665
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 322083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 147290
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898923
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 169190
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)]
Choir score
Item no.: 255590
for female chorus and chamber orchestra to a poem by Sándor Weöres
for: Women's choir (SMezA), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274632
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 256464
Opera in 3 acts op. 32
Libretto from M. Vörösmarty's drama by the composer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 256338
Musica Sacra vegyeskarra I/4
Songs about Jesus and the saints
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193215
Choruses for Children’s, Female and Male Voices
Kórusművek 1
Gyermek-, női és férfikarok
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 850936
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 850576
Oratorio in three parts by George Frideric Handel
in the arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116412
Arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615898
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 1566701
for: Choir, orchestra
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
Item no.: 1634091
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
25 choir scores, 17 instrumental parts
Item no.: 770656
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115489
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115342
for: Women's choir (3 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115295
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115210
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115025
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 114977
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114910
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 882618
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 871750
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 116637
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 116178
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116093
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115779
for: Choir
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115662
for: Choir, orchestra
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
Item no.: 1634053
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1017420
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 775067
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Score
Item no.: 694191
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 930421
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 686971
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 397369
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114771
for: Voice [choir/parish]; guitar [piano/organ/accordion] ad lib.
Songbook (Hardcover)
Item no.: 581671
for: Women's choir (SS), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 486955
for: Youth symphony orchestra [youth string orchestra/ youth concert band], choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 276505
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105890
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043425
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1209663
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 375519
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Audio-CD
Item no.: 341034
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