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.
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
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608997
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1200638
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1202964
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 645006
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154803
My Beloved Spoke to Me
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 906214
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918634
Anthem for Coronation of King Georg II. HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 997862
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 998415
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 874354
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918148
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur (dt)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1610482
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153885
aus dem Oratorium »Xerxes«
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1559911
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 655432
C-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 672670
Musikalisches Monodram
Repertoire Explorer
for: 3 soloists (TTB), mixed choir (SSTTB), narrator, piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1659000
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1059358
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1055380
for: Male choir (TTBB), 4 horns (E-flat)
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 1655448
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857074
für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676956
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900571
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 774220
Nr. 1 aus: Sechs Lieder für Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663319
Kantate für Mezzosopran, Bariton, gemischter Chor und Orchester
Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: 2 soloists (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 680626
Ballet héroïque in einem Prolog und vier Akten RCT 44
Fassung 1736
Jean-Philippe Rameau. Opera Omnia (OOR) IV/2+7
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 696664
"Wie die Blümelein draußen zittern"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648822
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343403
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764825
SATB w/opt. 7 Handbells & Congregation
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856512
für Vorsänger, Chor und Orgel
aus der Sammlung „Schire Jeschurun“ (Frankfurt, 1881)
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 687630
18 Werke
Motetten, Psalmen, Antiphonen, Sequenzen, Hymni
for: Mixed choir (8-12 parts); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 766480
Vier neue Bilder für Soli, gemischten Chor, zwei Klaviere und Akkordeon
Solistenpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 663889
Handlung in 3 Aufzügen WWV 90
Richard Wagner – Sämtliche Werke 8/II
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 764167
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1159906
Opera in three acts HWV 40
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) II/39
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 745185
Psalm 8
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: Choir, orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 878889
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549919
Elias op. 70op. 70MWV A 25
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1549973
from The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass (Second Edition)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642664
Sieben Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 990047
Afferentur regi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 3 trombones [organ]
Score
Item no.: 1135496
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984576
With What Child Is This
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764794
Traditional South African Choral Music (Collection)
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), percussion
Score
Item no.: 1676928
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