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: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 374754
Patriotic US-American hymn
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 276934
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 229455
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 329656
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 319715
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319671
for: Choir
Play-along CD 1
Item no.: 319668
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319259
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319254
Ballad for chorus and orchestra
MWV D3 (Op. 60), 1833
for: 4 soloists (ATBarB) [ATB], mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 1697174
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 366253
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 366019
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 364374
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627787
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 399232
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score, choir score
Item no.: 6472
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4611
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score, Choir score, audio file (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 8038
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 175308
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 3374
for: Choir
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642706
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642697
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777315
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820558
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1551671
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1167744
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470399
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169057
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1109726
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 859290
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105549
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105468
for: Children's choir (2 voices), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 695785
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 905215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317770
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317699
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317689
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317583
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317538
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 692498
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861373
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 187280
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 777783
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 744917
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; violin ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 965282
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682354
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533127
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533121
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