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 (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804245
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1023350
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815392
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625875
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 181771
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 466282
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1703398
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1016500
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931011
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912548
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1075304
Orchesterfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 clarinets (B-flat), 2 horns (C), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 tenor horns, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 499742
Orchesterfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 clarinets (B-flat), 2 horns (C), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 tenor horns, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 499745
Weihnachtsmotette
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 662950
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 328694
for: Male choir
Item no.: 549641
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960301
Hodie Christus natus est
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159844
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915102
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097289
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959416
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097358
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1086559
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959655
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 917188
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1149978
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 826792
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960310
für 1-, 3-, oder 4-stimmigen Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (1, 3, or 4 parts), organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 678861
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1014523
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097363
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097632
see - A Christmas Triptych
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155664
Performance CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1059210
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911580
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 917109
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907203
Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964694
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095841
Christmas Choruses and Solos
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115982
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960143
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096913
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824484
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117246
Heft 5 aus «Musik aus der Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn»
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 687309
Musik aus der Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn Band 4
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 687315
für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 671135
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 867604
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