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.
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100909
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101149
Cantata for the 5th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233461
Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century
Kodaly Today Handbook Series
for: School class
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 887495
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 325353
Kantate zum Sonntag Exaudi
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 485324
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317838
Performance Ideas for Choirs
for: Children's choir; piano [guitar] ad lib.
Score (teacher's manual)
Item no.: 1652528
8 Stücke mit afrikanischen Wurzeln
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 186344
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 962173
Chorlieder für 4 gemischte Stimmen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 655297
Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century
for: School class
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 874555
17th Century English Melody
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905590
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 796772
Ode to St Cecilia
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340592
Opera in two acts op. 50
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302521
6 neue geistliche Songs für gemischten Chor (SAM)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 melodic instruments (C/B-flat), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 673695
(Cannons)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (STTTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1667309
(To a Heart That's True)
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 635245
Ashdown Vocal Duets
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105357
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105388
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982779
for St. Cecilia's Day
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 392265
Paradise road
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915739
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1015578
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Item no.: 465108
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915504
Folk aus England
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983023
Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198634
From Angel of Light
Dale Warland Choral Series
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB divisi)
Choir score
Item no.: 1557329
12 Spirituals für gemischten Chor (SAAM) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SAABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 775064
We are here to sing
13 afrikanische Chorlieder aus Namibia
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 614059
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 579716
Oper/Operette
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982896
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695450
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1549559
for mixed choir (AATBarBarB)
for: Mixed choir (AATBarBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549240
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697075
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 550833
A Fractured Fable of Frogs, Folks and Falling Skies
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1656842
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 692241
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105576
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100798
10 magical songs to make you really smile.
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 831800
Volume 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317834
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983015
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101476
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982971
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