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: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341902
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 414345
for: Mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 853069
for: Narrator, 3 violins, cello; children's choir ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 200023
for: Narrator, 4 recorders (SATB); children's choir ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 200019
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 887083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; flute ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 881292
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 648476
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202836
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170659
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 887222
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 873738
for: Choir
Item no.: 864228
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1031912
for: 2 soloists (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 680626
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628516
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628512
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 187277
for: Mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166857
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (4 voices), Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1558597
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1703514
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1703478
Three new voicings of a best seller!
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1703407
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1703404
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335427
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1619721
for: Children's choir, piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 692927
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 694269
for: Mixed choir, tape
Score, CD
Item no.: 691450
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261238
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 215232
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 121945
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 395318
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 326974
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 459245
for: Children's choir
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 680603
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625989
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625755
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625676
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 878958
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 301448
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 343997
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 605247
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1703915
for: Narrator, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1160735
Serenata in 3 parts
Halle Handel Edition (HHA) II/30
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868841
Congratulatory Cantata for the Birthday of Duke Christian of Saxony-Weißenfels and of Duke Ernst August of Saxony-Weimar
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116723
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116696
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