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.
43 neue religiöse Lieder und Spirituals
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Performance score for winds
Item no.: 160870
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 554389
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 392154
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584345
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; strings ad lib.
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 930189
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 929459
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769200
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769074
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 493845
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556693
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 659814
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235051
Kantate zum 18. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233496
aus »Open up Wide«
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 627382
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701798
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 160682
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 942102
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941918
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940104
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 939936
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940811
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941709
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941380
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933296
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933292
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933254
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933202
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 933019
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932993
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932933
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932907
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932888
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932878
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932876
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932856
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932810
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932696
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932582
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932548
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932492
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932433
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932416
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932361
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 932359
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932260
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932254
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 932241
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