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.
Zwei Lieder zur Weihnacht
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297324
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Bassoon
Item no.: 291203
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 290823
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 680146
A Children's Musical
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1317161
Die Geburt unsers Herren
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235987
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 562021
Choir Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 886520
für 8-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388117
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1007319
Magnificat
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 231040
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877997
"Cantio sacra de AnnuntIatione B. Mariae Virginis", aus "Novi atque catholici thesauri musici, liber primus", Venezia (A. Gardano)
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 310485
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1617058
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1345965
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1211999
Eine Sammlung mit all den Klassikern zu Advent und Weihnachten, die uns durch diese ganz besondere Zeit begleiten.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Part 4 in C, Bass Clef (8vab)
Item no.: 647123
Ein Singen zur Menschwerdung Christi von der Verheißung bis zur Geburt. Nach Volksliedern f. Solostimmen, Chor, Sprecher u. kleines Orch.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 307724
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 307499
O mein allerliebstes Jesulein
for: Male choir (3 voices)
Score
Item no.: 309234
für gemischten Chor und Orgel
(2 Violinen und Kontrabass ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 308284
Heftausgabe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 306923
Pastorella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309586
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895837
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385522
Aulós
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 409445
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234737
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116630
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309391
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308553
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 751566
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843579
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 844311
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940351
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 937039
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936806
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937523
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 934846
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908584
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907500
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 847833
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846297
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 846953
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845273
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 763122
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764233
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764208
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920272
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