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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260767
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 361303
December 2018
Student 10-Pak
for: School class
10 journals
Item no.: 683578
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 610246
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 550138
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 494231
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 494222
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 493615
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 493612
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 481275
From the King's Singers' Beatles album.
King's Singer's Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 478290
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 604129
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 602158
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 585272
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 473077
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 470020
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 469900
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 432036
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 625692
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 625035
from Frozen
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 658678
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 654820
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813016
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812714
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812646
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812626
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812583
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 674476
Known from the comedy-drama television series Glee
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 673765
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 642324
from Frozen
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 638510
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 637803
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 621231
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1665169
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1658132
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1657393
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 768245
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 768108
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 766548
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 766512
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 693535
for: School class
Score (teacher's manual), online media
Item no.: 693376
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 692193
for: Women's choir [ssa], piano; flute ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 692145
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 691505
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 691465
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 690732
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