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
Choir score
Item no.: 688964
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 686876
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 772235
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 235310
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 465163
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 319541
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862163
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895476
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582118
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898467
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 142900
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862056
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285553
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 561573
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 659352
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 373736
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 194338
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 654841
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 696721
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 694349
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 420704
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1544745
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 690952
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984863
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984515
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 889202
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985409
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1664383
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score
Item no.: 616291
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATBB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 555355
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 554779
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 206785
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672999
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343429
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087106
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087072
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985780
for: Mixed choir; organ [piano] ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 301765
9th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285499
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 558216
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 564059
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1711661
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 362891
Oratorio
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359617
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814119
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605248
No. 2 of Three Elizabethan Part Songs. Text from Shakespeare’s Othello
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1678535
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 148577
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