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.
Marian antiphone
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697066
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2759
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285504
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 117270
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 471076
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 212461
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 376691
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 321933
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 607833
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 673457
Choral collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 649531
88 Hits aus fünf Jahrzehnten Rock-Pop-Geschichte
Die Song-Collection für den Musikunterricht - Liederbuch (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: School choir
Songbook
Item no.: 211220
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764119
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579892
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697292
for: Choir
Item no.: 1645498
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 181460
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 672424
for: Flexible ensemble (6 voices); children's choir ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2390
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 280763
12 Lieder für Advent, Weihnachten und Neujahr in leichten Sätzen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 725997
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 673455
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 236803
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 499708
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 471466
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 768068
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 175864
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 245191
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 115956
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 279231
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686554
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 662036
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 349080
for: Children's choir, flute, keyboard instrument
Score
Item no.: 377558
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 294925
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 127892
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Ensemble score Violin 1,2
Item no.: 690347
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book, online audio (app)
Item no.: 817125
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1664112
for: Choir (1–2 voices), 1–2 flutes, rhythm section (guitar, bass, percussion)
Score
Item no.: 120289
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ; strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 281497
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano; latin percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777749
for: Soloist (bass), vocal ensemble, 2 mixed choirs, boys’ choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 352739
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 370920
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 678032
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 496648
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1163
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378383
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