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: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 184190
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 485284
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 177632
10 Handbells & Tambourine
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855583
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1059368
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 918189
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121172
Bell Tree Part
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918819
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169439
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125428
nach einem Gedicht von Hermann Hesse
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 167565
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 327303
for mixed choir with piano or 4 horns
Was gleicht wohl auf Erden - from the opera "Der Freischütz"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 328623
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 323441
Légende bretonne
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 303142
für gemischten Chor, Streicher, Klavier, Gitarre, Bass und Schlagzeug
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, piano, guitar, bass, drums
Choir score
Item no.: 621004
für gem Chor und Orgel (Instrumente und Soli ad lib) Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634239
(My way)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 311067
for: Male choir
Buch, Hardcover
Item no.: 245721
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 246981
for: Children's choir
Songbook
Item no.: 246717
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 242905
Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 193299
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 227584
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 228550
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 550788
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 212094
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 211544
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 493668
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 550826
Man muß solang man lebt, lernen wie man leben soll
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 217697
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 217670
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 216426
Performance CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1059197
Til en ung moder
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 683952
Choralkantate für gemischten Chor, Streicher und Basso continuo
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, 3 violas, bassoon, basso continuo [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 664350
für gemischten 3-stimmigen Chor, Solisten, Kinderchor ad. lib., Sprech Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 662487
kompatibel mit der Fassung für gemischten Chor
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 680473
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 658505
Fünf Weisheiten für gemischten Chor a cappella
Aus der Reihe Chormusik in Einzelausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659219
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 654888
for: Women's choir (3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 654885
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 856464
SATB w/opt. Flute
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918482
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121236
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122760
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 280486
Kantate
Kaleidoskop
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score, CD
Item no.: 389409
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