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.
Urtext
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1639797
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1639790
(liturgisch)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 633411
A choral speech collection
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 1544721
Hymnus für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111437
(liturgisch)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 353685
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126775
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803907
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323530
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 290561
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125596
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123894
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122482
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 825656
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126794
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122629
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122389
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122356
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122319
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 827356
(ShowTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805570
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803651
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317369
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 318686
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 338269
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123286
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124359
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 641638
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323366
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 929353
Opt. String Bass
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902863
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 901250
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938835
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920537
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1162078
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125978
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126077
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125055
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123797
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122366
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323453
Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 318681
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 180105
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810843
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 320574
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814209
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809002
including the Lord's Prayer
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 456657
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