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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938296
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116053
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159969
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097691
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914867
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101349
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912798
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960222
Volume 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1151253
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925749
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 863994
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121606
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111666
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117290
2 Woodwinds in C, 5 Handbells
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1160002
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121573
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319565
20 More Easy Anthems and Songs for RSCM Bronze and Dean's Award
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153594
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110351
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342145
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913563
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325729
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160076
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 952352
for: Women's choir, piano
Item no.: 445686
Evangelien-Verse zum Kirchenjahr
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 207235
for: Male choir; organ ad lib.
Item no.: 223979
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 549214
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193752
Strubes Chorblaetter~Chorblatt Nr 50
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 551581
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 490388
Beihefte Praktischer Musik 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Item no.: 156970
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 463053
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Item no.: 158153
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170699
Nur lieferbar in Verbindung mit Chorstimmen!
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 170348
Mutter Erde ist so schön
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 165147
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 185212
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 179790
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
PART (20)
Item no.: 181067
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 174602
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 190318
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 280322
SING + PLAY
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280262
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647081
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 647966
Choralsatz EG 105
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648370
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 643861