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.
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900825
No. 3 The Golden Willow Tree
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901424
Boosey's Choral Miscellany No. 218
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895053
Practical sessions in jazz and improvisation
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 909681
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 692831
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899554
No.1 from From the Heart
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 898422
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 895942
Irish Folk Song
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865222
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1148343
Contemporary Choral Series (Boosey and Hawkes)
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647857
revised and original versions
for: 4 soloists (ATBB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score, set of parts (strings)
Item no.: 929271
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1664049
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750207
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 909427
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105501
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760252
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100884
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 905776
op. 61/1D. 740
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638425
Facsimile: Bodleian Library, Oxford, MSS Mus. Sch. c.105, c.106, d.264
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile)
Item no.: 929444
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566836
Shawnee Sacred
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556292
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 895926
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984505
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343430
Weltlich
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087175
Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, Urtext editions)
Item no.: 868775
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 868384
LKM Music
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 877196
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862266
SATB and Organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1582722
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1031267
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1534565
from "Coco"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797851
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862058
G. Schirmer Collection of Oper
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 901643
An Introduction to Music
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1534511
Choral Score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 980985
Student Handbook
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1329744
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862765
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866564
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 862781
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 858101
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862249
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798130
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317762
Enoch Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962254
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