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: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 347742
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 145600
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444419
for: Women's choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 161598
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 185754
for: Solo voice (soprano/alto), women's choir (SSA), oboe, 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 491178
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano; cello ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1654702
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1633970
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 460553
for: 3 soloists (SSS), mixed choir (SATB), brass winds, percussion, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 460527
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 460516
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 217576
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533139
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533031
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816337
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815156
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 813620
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 811362
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 797727
from the musical "Kinky Boots"
Alfred Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746360
from the musical "Kinky Boots"
Alfred Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746347
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746303
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746188
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746123
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 640851
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 604128
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 289971
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799682
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797856
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683155
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234132
for: Favorit choir (SATB), mixed choir (SATB)
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232137
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 886558
for: 3 soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 635446
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 383020
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 662375
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120473
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 442800
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 696768
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 634702
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 655905
for: Mixed choir (SAT), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588163
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642700
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260634
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984628
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169238
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 919890
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1329731
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