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.
Cantata for the 1st day of Christmas
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233676
B flat major
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Score
Item no.: 1642672
Gesamtausgabe 6 (Complete edition)
for: Women's choir, organ [piano]
Item no.: 187401
aus: Psalmi Vespertini
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 158667
Neue Chor-Kompositionen zur Vorweihnachtszeit für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335438
für gemischten Chor
Geistliche Chormusik 2/3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309761
for: Women's choir (SMezA), harp
Score, solo part
Item no.: 476972
Weihnachtsoratorium nach einem mittelalterlichen Mysterienspiel von Arnoul Greban
Study Score 382, Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 362005
16 leichte Chorsätze in Originalsprache und mit singbaren deutschen Texten für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 669536
für 2 gem Chöre, Streicher und Bc, Stimmen Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1657304
Offertorium pro Nativitate Domini Nostri Jesu Christi für Soli (SATB), gemischten Chor, Streicher und Orgel
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1653119
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151378
Geistliches Konzert
Hoch rühmt und ehrt meine Seele Gott den Herrn
for: Favorit choir (SATB), double chapell choirs (ATB/SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 232086
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 227233
Süddeutsche Weihnachtsmusik Band 10
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 218516
O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661159
French Sacred Music
for: Mixed choir (4–6 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 659316
Neufassung F-Dur op. (2012)
(Mengenrabatt ab 50 Ex. auf Anfrage)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 656087
Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 616053
in Nativitate Domini in nocte
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 433070
für vier Solostimmen (SATB), gemischten Chor (SATB), Orchester und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 238022
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 235180
KV 109 (74e)
Klavierauszug
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235059
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 232566
French Sacred Music
– Graduated prices on request –
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 232193
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1670657
mit beiden Versionen des Magnificat
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 677596
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 865517
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891618
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 889358
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679503
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678353
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 460519
Komt Allen Tezamen
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Conductors part (C)
Item no.: 1184416
Weihnachten
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764022
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763565
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947355
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947148
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942466
Jazz
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942387
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 945960
Jazz
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945815
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946102
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939173
A Classic Christmas Celebration
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939170
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 940314
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929446
A Christmas Musical Drama
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929157
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