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.
Ein Chorheft für die Sekundarstufen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 404786
Centenary Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1317709
Kirchenkantate für den 2. Osterfesttag (Ostermontag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 177429
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 469913
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128773
Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Leos Janácek B/3
for: Male choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 117478
For SATB Divisi Chorus Unaccompanied
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 879757
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 886345
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343050
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317967
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1317940
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983086
Cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Trinity/all occasions
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB) [SB/TB/SATB], mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1680956
Hunting Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1654165
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1645496
for: Choir (S/SA/SAM), piano; wind instruments, rhythm-group ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 693488
A New Gospel Music Experience for mixed Voices
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 685339
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556756
Oper in einem Akt (sieben Szenen)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 177463
Cantata for a wedding
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
– Gradual price on request –
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 673207
Kantate zum 13. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 673197
Cantata for the 7th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 673179
Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias (vor 1724)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 673140
Passio secundum Joannem. Traditionelle Fassung (1739/1749)
Carus Choir Coach
Übe-CD für Chorsänger (Ausgabe für Sopran)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 672456
Cantata for the 7th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach–Ausgaben (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666989
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 658659
Cantate for the 3rd Sunday after Trinity
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 461152
BWV 278
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 422999
Über die Nicht- und Flüchtigkeit des menschlichen Lebens – Kantate zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 423958
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494818
CHOR
Paul Simon
Popular Choral Library
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score, Poster
Item no.: 417436
Festival Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 659870
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 488609
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 227033
from: „Gospelsongs Selected“
for Choir (SATB) and Combo (Piano / Guitar / Bass / Drums)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score, Choir score, audio file (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 8036
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 491606
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 862046
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 981305
Gospel, arranged for 2 Voices and Keyboard / Guitar
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), keyboard [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 5011
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 930896
Gospelsong nach Dan 12, 1.5 (?) (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730177
Traditional Blues from the USA
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754639
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343078
A Free Improvisation on the Sailor's Ballad
for: 2 soloists (ABar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1611349
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1641238
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1596230
Cantata for St. John’s Day
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232779
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235744
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