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.
Christmas Day
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950153
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950094
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610078
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610031
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609744
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 578099
From A World of Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1126711
A Cantata for Christmas - 10-Pack Listening CDs
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1655690
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1656153
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 370569
für Sopran, Chor, 2 Trompeten, 2 Violinen, Baß und Pauken
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 334462
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609546
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609495
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608991
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608711
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847564
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 847156
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847609
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 849393
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 901723
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900534
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 898227
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936270
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936220
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929446
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929006
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931176
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 910771
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 909875
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 927916
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912250
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930204
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904098
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 903289
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932314
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937604
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934017
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 933880
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935008
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934723
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935710
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 941247
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947355
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947148
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946102
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 946035
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