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.
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1326881
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901591
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326375
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168910
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965182
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score
Item no.: 1660303
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1353505
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167297
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 860763
Oper in einem Akt
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 776649
From Heav'n on High
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985527
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002329
for Chorus and Orchestra
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 883792
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169637
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169580
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965573
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167695
Pavane Secular
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168619
A Tenebrae Service
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965593
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965532
Southern Music
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 923527
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001818
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1327044
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169661
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985730
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925400
(Medley)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965559
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925195
SATB chorus with piano reduction
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 872193
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002377
They Are Holy
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1326442
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168750
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002387
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354163
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897812
Southern Music
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925267
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985686
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167532
Nick Strimple Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168770
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326308
per coro e 17 strumenti (2020)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 1566701
2. Meiteli
for mixed choir, clarinet, violin, cello, bass and Hackbrett
Swiss Composers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Choir score
Item no.: 1031360
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168322
Brookfield Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965422
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985216
Pavane Secular
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168325
Song of the Wise Men
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985209
Daybreak Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167633
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