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: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022304
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105471
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella, Instrumentalbegleitung (Band/Gitarre/Klavier) ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1549933
A Cantata-Musical for Unison Voices and Piano
with guitar chords
english text
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1667421
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168273
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982636
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904480
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1076675
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660708
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1582802
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682353
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682281
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101560
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 371931
für sechs Stimmen (gemischter Chor) a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 665672
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938587
Complete Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 634604
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169162
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 620815
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343066
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914809
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905923
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), handbells
Choir score
Item no.: 1556296
No. 1 of "Three Elizabethan Part Songs"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 932300
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982979
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982925
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1037222
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 561572
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 492259
The complete singing resource for primary schools
Vol. 2
Singing Sherlock
for: Children's choir
Study book, 2 Playback-CDs
Item no.: 444610
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 342112
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 473083
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1038544
for mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 275038
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101292
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 680903
ohne Umschlag
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)], piano
Choir score
Item no.: 696377
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964811
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101223
Kantate zum Reformationsfest
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 233311
Cantata for Whit Sunday BWV 74
after the second setting by Bach
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233226
Cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232936
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317769
Kantate zum Reformationsfest (Rekonstruktion der ersten Leipziger Fassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681015
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982832
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983117
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1192482
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1192481
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