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.
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857118
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1037709
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1041788
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039256
Accompaniment Edition (2 separate spiral-bound books)
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 918480
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655785
for mixed chorus and instrument(s) score
for: Choir
Item no.: 662932
GIA Evoking Sound
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157498
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1149843
2 Oct. Handbells w/opt. Congregation
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 860455
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856816
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1151128
Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123930
3-7 oct.
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917753
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037847
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 860308
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856043
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856232
for unaccompanied mixed choir
for: Choir
Study score
Item no.: 1587222
Two-Part Mixed
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857352
Preview Pack
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score, CD
Item no.: 854775
Rhythm Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 918451
Two-Part Mixed
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919138
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077456
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123018
SATB w/opt. B-flat Trumpet
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918022
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 908533
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, cello, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 499713
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1158514
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124447
String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1151827
SATB & Organ w/opt. 4 Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856054
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856493
Marias Wallfahrt
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037791
This glad day He appeared
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038228
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123206
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1041869
Two-Part
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855853
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856571
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039444
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155597
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919507
Performance/Accompaniment CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 856500
Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1158466
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918033
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157785
Psalm 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1023562
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919622
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