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.
Contemporary Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859597
for: Women's choir (SS), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 479976
svensk danslek for mixed chorus
score
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 168067
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680203
for: Children's choir, instruments
Item no.: 136891
Hail Thou, King of Glory
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902213
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 308203
Romantische Oper in 3 Aufzügen WWV 75
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284549
A fairytale opera in three acts
Reprint of an authoritative German edition
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 177653
Lobgesang des Jean Racine Des-Dur op. 11
Stimmensatz (Org-6-5-4-3-3)
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649570
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
Theme From The Bbc Tv Series "The Vicar Of Dibley"
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 455661
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 326059
for mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214496
Tragödie in einem Aufzug op. 58
Richard Strauss – Sämtliche Bühnenwerke
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214245
Israelisches Volkslied
Chor unisono und Klavier, oder 3-stimmiger Frauen- oder Kinderchor
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445793
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315136
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695812
Klassik
for: Children's choir, piano
Buch
Item no.: 269732
Kinderchor-Kantate
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 377398
Bärenreiter Urtext-Ausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 425834
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 326420
Motets and Anthems from Byrd to Elgar
Chorleiterband/Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 660047
for: Choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 613828
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 193810
This Land & Passage
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984810
from Nine
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820567
Hymne für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 180830
aus der Operette "Der fliegende Rittmeister"
für Männerchor und Klavier
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 172403
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432664
aus der Offenbarung des Johannes
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 112820
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817164
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore" KV 339
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 375732
Für Frauenchor SSA (TB ad lib.) und Streichquartett (Kontrabass ad lib.)
for: Women's choir (SSA), strings
Score
Item no.: 656579
Música de Latinoamérica
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 432144
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 616224
Bearbeitung für Chor und Kammerensemble
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Score
Item no.: 778348
for: Male choir (TBarBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 107215
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170192
Reproduced from the 1887 Breitkopf & Härtel edition
Dover Full Scores
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416698
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore"
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 117052
Novello Voices Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score, choir score
Item no.: 494217
Dreistimmige Chorsätze für den Gottesdienst
Chorleiterband
for: Mixed choir (SABar)
Choir book
Item no.: 559860
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 552186
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383672
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779404
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; treble recorder ad lib.
Conductor's score
Item no.: 1558725
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