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.
Traditional African Zulu Song
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 443375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 397565
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 499132
Partitur mit unterlegtem Klavierauszug
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (piano reduction)
Item no.: 199977
KV 275 (272b)
Stimmensatz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 236874
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 332584
aus der Oper "Iphigenie in Aulis"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 762132
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 641245
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 359633
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105907
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir part Soprano 2
Item no.: 1042905
for: Choir
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 148733
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 373778
Kantate zum 1. Pfingsttag
C-Dur BWV 172 (1714)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 797956
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1147146
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 582039
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148898
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148760
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148594
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1585283
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1585279
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1149211
for: Mixed choir (SABar), narrator, trumpet, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 766363
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1192938
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920218
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891858
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878325
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892364
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864585
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 687615
Helgoländer Kanonmesse
for: Mixed choir (3 Stimmen), Instrumente
Choir score
Item no.: 1611209
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685148
for: soloist (T/Bar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685137
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Book
Item no.: 832148
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233631
for: Children's choir (2 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822515
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 771100
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass winds, kettle drums, organ
Wind parts, Single part Kettledrum
Item no.: 1615849
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 475640
for: Mixed choir, piano
Study score
Item no.: 108689
Cantata for the 4th Sunday of Advent
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 291351
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1545142
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1545051
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1544680
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209068
(Our Mountains)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779823
for: Women's choir (SMezA), piano
Partitur
Item no.: 1681063
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