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.
aus: Fünf Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 338039
Latin American Choral Repertoire
Aktualisierte Neuauflage
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1689579
Carus Choir Coach
Hob. XXII:9, 1796
Practice aids, voice part alto
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
MP3 CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1689302
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1682195
Kyrie-Gloria-Messe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1678390
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1671799
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1668518
aus: Psalmen Davids
Psalmkonzert
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668475
Ein junges Musical
für Menschen zwischen 8 und 14 Jahren
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 1668235
Kantate für den 6. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1667797
Übehilfe für Chorsänger – Ausgabe für Bass
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 1665378
Heinrich Isaac in Konstanz CD
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
CD
Item no.: 1665274
for: Children's choir, band
Scores, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1664980
aus: Pop-Chorbuch zum EG: Morning has broken
Instrumentalstimmen-Set
for: Choir, band
Set of parts (Band)
Item no.: 1664080
Geistliches Singspiel für Kinderchor, Gemeinde und Instrumente nach bekannten Volks- Kinder- und Kirchenliedern
für Kinder ab 8 Jahren, Anlass kann z.B. Erntedank oder das Thema "Schöpfung" sein
for: Children's choir, melody instrument, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 331761
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 330170
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 301998
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB); trombone, strings, basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 299409
Simile est regnum
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 296123
aus: Zwei Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 295319
Originalfassung: Coro SSAA, Pfte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 291925
aus: Romanzen und Balladen IV
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 282370
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 423188
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423095
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 423044
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 422931
Vier Tantum-ergo-Vertonungen im homophonen Satz aus den frühen Jahren des Komponisten, die er 1888 revidiert und zusammen hat drucken lassen.
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422925
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSAT, ATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422237
Neue geistliche Lieder
Chorheft
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 422154
aus: h-Moll-Messe
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 422129
mit deutscher Übersetzung nicht singbar
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422103
Das ist mir lieb
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 397369
aus: Romanzen und Balladen I, op. 67
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 396937
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 376933
Choral Repertoire from Israel
Carmina mundi 12
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 376395
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 374611
aus: In der Natur / V prìrode
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 374451
Ein Criminal in zwei Akten
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 372901
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 424245
Kyrie-Gloria-Messe (Lutherische Messe)
Entstehungszeit vermutlich späte Leipziger Jahre
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 424220
aus: Vier Chorlieder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423815
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423760
op. 44 Nr. 5
Partitur
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423668
op. 137 Nr. 11; aus: Zwölf geistliche Lieder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423605
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423313
op. 10 Nr. 3
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423308
op. 25 Nr. 5
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423298
aus: Responsorien für die Karwoche
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423267