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.
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058790
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906051
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 885828
10 Masterwork Duets from the Baroque, Classic and Romantic Periods for Soprano and Another Voice
for: Choir
Item no.: 864228
Three Festival Choruses
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1078041
Hét ének két szólamra
for: Children's choir (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 850971
Tre Igloo-Sange
op.69
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), timpani
Score
Item no.: 683841
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850809
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609428
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 877135
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722965
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040350
Mash-up from Pitch Perfect
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653493
Southern Music
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Buch
Item no.: 927112
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326415
2 woodwinds in C
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1151590
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904189
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 887471
zum Gedenken an 500 Jahre Reformation
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1610806
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148809
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126480
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Music score
Item no.: 1203267
"Fölkelt már a csillag" - "Schon aufgegangen die Sterne sind"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746913
Jesus Once for our Salvation
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900543
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835014
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950251
Based on St. Luke's Account of the Passion
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154587
Vier synagogale Gesänge
Synagogale Musik von Kantoren aus Böhmen und Mähren 8
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 763152
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 840199
Melodramma eroico in due atti
Edizione critica
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 697207
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 878539
Flute, Oboe, Cello
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156261
3 oct. w/opt. 1 oct. Handchimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918175
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325686
TTBB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919660
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609186
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105609
Southern Music
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927328
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1041646
African American Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154425
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 855130
"Gewaltig endet so das Jahr"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742459
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950737
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124995
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121269
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058575
Gemeindelied im Chor
Gotteslob Nr. 731
Evangelisches Gesangbuch Nr. 10
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Choir score (for the parish)
Item no.: 649755
Zyklus für gemischten Chor nach Gedichten von Wolf Peter Schnetz
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 661887
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