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.
Kantate Nr. 2 zum dritten Sonntag im Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 660108
Sieben Chorsätze nach Gedichten von Sigrid Nordmar-Bellebaum
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 622202
Motette nach Jesaja, 1,2-20
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 622179
Kantate in zwei Teilen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 616164
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 614832
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170659
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 616922
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 626279
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 625773
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 626751
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Studienpartitur (dt/en)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 630063
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 623606
Schulmusical für Jugendliche ab 12 Jahren
Partitur mit Aufführungshinweisen
for: Children's choir, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 632918
... animas omnium fidelium
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 637127
Drame en 3 actes
Version originale de 1872 pour ensemble instrumental et chœur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 632826
Oper/Operette
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 632705
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 620700
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score, CD
Item no.: 620543
Ein Musical für Kinder und Erwachsene
für Sprecher, Kinderchor und Instrumente Partitur
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 620501
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 628097
Prolog und sechs ornithologische Miniaturen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 627480
für gem.Chor a cappellaOp. 89
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 627368
am 27. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 327638
Großes Potpourri
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor/Bass
Item no.: 464800
12 kinderlieder
nach Gedichten von Alfred Könner
for: Children's choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 327035
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 326974
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321842
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321807
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321790
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321783
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321678
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321661
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321617
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321610
for: Male choir
Item no.: 326349
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [piano]
Piano score
Item no.: 326695
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 323889
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323670
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 322083
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322005
for SATB unaccompanied
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321976
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321960
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321948
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321921
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321879
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324709
Popularmusik für Chor 14
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 313091
für Soli, Chor, 2 Trompeten oder Hörner und Pauken ad lib., 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
aus den Vesperae solennes de Dominica op. 9
kritisch revidierte Neuausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 300540
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