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: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532898
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532892
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532888
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532887
from Wish
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1690312
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672649
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 810374
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810311
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810025
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 810006
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633948
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633214
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 1566985
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566837
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1559414
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814466
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 814393
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814379
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807246
for: Choir
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 807041
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 809909
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809821
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809809
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 805940
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 805575
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804880
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802988
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803585
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803538
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 803308
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862772
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 1329764
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 322173
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 838275
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 616568
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1329754
Five fun songs from the hit musical for two-part young choir
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 486802
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 171524
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 688432
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489919
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 862948
for: Mixed choir (SSATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899127
for: Choir, instruments
Journal
Item no.: 424557
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1026890
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532652
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532627
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532619
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532616
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