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.
from Finland
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754644
from Japan
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728175
from former Czechoslovakia
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728152
from France
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728145
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738659
Text und Melodie aus dem "Lochamer Liederbuch" (1452)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756142
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756137
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756134
Text und Melodie aus Schlesien
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756131
Text aus Schwaben / Melodie Schwäbische Volksweise, zuerst bei Silcher, Volkslieder
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756130
aus der "Fröhlichen Wanderkantate"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756128
nach einem Gedicht aus dem 15. Jh.
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741256
Text trad. (1602) / Melodie trad. (1545)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726310
Text und Melodie trad. (1540)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726297
(Tod)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725790
for mixed choir a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 751479
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746983
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 648568
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476391
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 481597
for mixed choir a cappella (SATBarB)
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 759014
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 644055
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890546
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSA), orchestra
Study score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
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for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 852275
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Piano reduction
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for: Mixed choir (STB), viola, organ
Score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 869400
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865440
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 909505
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901502
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900082
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897155
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 892330
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