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.
based on "The Creation" by Joseph Haydn
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 470984
für gem Chor a cappella
Die Psalmen aus dem evangelischen Gesangbuch
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 603133
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 1555583
for: Mixed choir, melodic instruments, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 475471
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560609
"Coronation Mass"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 294473
from the Oratorio Messiah HWV 56
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284298
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043302
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043288
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 770371
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687857
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 625459
for: 6 soloists (SSSATB)[mixed choir], basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1589039
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359953
Kantate zum 1. Pfingsttag
C-Dur BWV 172 (1714)
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 178862
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [folk music band]
Set of parts
Item no.: 413189
for: Soloists, children's choir, narrator, keyboard; melodic instruments, rhythm instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 696996
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 181764
for: Choir
Music score
Item no.: 633914
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 185935
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 662161
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 430501
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 328413
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 292352
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 174747
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 445043
Lieder aus dem Gotteslob
zweistimmige Chorsätze mit Orgel-/ Klavierbegleitung
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano [organ]; melody instrument ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 654988
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 169190
Version Hellmann/Glöckner
Edition published in cooperation with the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, reconstructed version (2001)
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 163377
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1711571
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1711532
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1549937
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1215746
Text selected from ancient Pompeiian graffiti
HPS 1682
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1681184
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549919
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1108940
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 369728
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470161
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 341393
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985566
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801252
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798453
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924105
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 475480
for: Mixed choir (STBar), organ
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 258157
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 909729
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864357
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 552696
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