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.
Boys & Men's Chorus or SATB Chorus, a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896588
Rollo Dilworth Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896570
Schirmer Choral Classics
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896559
Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896434
Dale Warland Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 896386
Craig Hella Johnson Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896256
Andrea Ramsey Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896171
with Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1656648
Richmond Music Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1541659
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 964984
Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902798
Jameson Marvin Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898838
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 898544
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 861842
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861580
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 861576
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 837670
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002361
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354154
for SATB Choral
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 765936
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167708
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167757
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1160732
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124020
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122870
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808873
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803553
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965167
Novello New Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 911665
Novello New Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891731
Opéra Biblique en cinq Actes et un Prologue
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 675379
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984746
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985253
A Cantata for Passiontide
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965488
for: Male choir (TTBB) [4 solo voices]
Choir score
Item no.: 1025174
Dramma lirico in un atto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 778251
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168456
Director Edition
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1001660
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168451
Gentry Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1327056
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984835
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168437
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354123
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002919
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985822
Novello Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864357
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1341813
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 664836
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