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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114910
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114771
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114748
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 694267
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 584868
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass winds
Score
Item no.: 584853
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion, organ
Score
Item no.: 677683
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205750
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 157861
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 156837
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 562717
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459733
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385663
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385653
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 382123
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383671
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 154693
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 683557
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 832119
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 772614
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685174
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 673123
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1024926
for: Mixed choir a cappella
10 music scores (Urtext)
Item no.: 585434
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 285592
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285533
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 285523
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 900462
(Sanctus from "Shona Mass")
for: Women's choir (SSA) [male choir (TTB)], percussion
Score
Item no.: 655547
for: 2 soloists (TT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685143
for: 2 soloists (TT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685135
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 378507
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 675928
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 673037
for: Male choir (CtTTB), string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 667102
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 337741
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1629316
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 911119
for: Mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1544615
for: Mixed choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1200006
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Orgelauszug
Item no.: 633209
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 499824
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685722
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685126
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685104
for: Male choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684769
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1148668
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684816
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