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) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339589
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339550
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339525
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339516
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340091
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730068
Mel.: Lyon 1557; geistlich Erfurt 1563 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730057
Mel.: Köln 1623 (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730052
Text: Str. 1: trad. 15. Jahrhundert; Str. 2+3: Mrtin Luther 1524; Mel.: Ebersberg um 1480 (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730051
Text: 1540 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730035
Bearbeitung des 3stg. "Chor d. Jünglinge" aus "Judas Maccabäus"; Textunterlegung: Johann Eschenburg oder Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730031
Text: Elsaß 15. Jahrhundert; Melodie: Andernacher Gesangbuch, Köln 1608 (Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730030
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730725
Bamberger Gesangbuch 1670
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732561
Lieder des 16. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731844
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460502
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893976
4. Im Stall bei Esel, Schaf und Rind (Frankreich, 13. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 742327
Medingen um 1380/ Str. 1 Medingen um 1380/Str. 2-7 Martin Luther 1524
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758589
Melodie und Text: Aachen 1394
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758588
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760302
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 602593
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 658873
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560261
Christus ist heut' geboren
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746585
Lieder des 16. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746579
(Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744556
aus: op. 5; Text: Joh. 3,16 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744546
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753411
Mel.: 15. Jahrhundert Heinrich Isaac "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" 1539; geistl. 1505 (Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753383
Chorheft Nr. 9 - Am Weihnachtsabend
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751753
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751467
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751465
Köln 1599
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751449
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments [organ]
Piano score
Item no.: 204656
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [melodic instruments]
Choir score
Item no.: 1659985
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 309559
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score, online media
Item no.: 1652239
Seht da kommt die Alte
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725414
Paris 1599/Köln 1638
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725388
Anhang C zum Magnificat BWV 243
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 722936
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 158136
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ score
Item no.: 276798
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 308066
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 307656
Weihnachtsmesse
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1563605
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Item no.: 474495
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