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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122584
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126157
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123564
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812481
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805897
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798951
De Haske Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806597
A Cantata for Christmas (ChoirTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800995
Accompaniment CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1001816
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002701
A Christmas Musical for Children
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167686
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167785
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167386
BWV 197a - 197,1
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1551786
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812709
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807163
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809549
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805335
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801964
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017214
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809560
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804337
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813922
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812046
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806820
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805938
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 768983
Discovery Choral Series
for: Choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 804620
Pavane Sacred
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168726
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609524
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609303
on 'O, Come all ye faithful'
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 869101
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953602
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1093124
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 895007
Choir Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 893791
Choir Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 880888
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 656486
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953758
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950764
Christmas cantata HoWV II.13
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 772200
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 680483
Cantata for the Sunday after Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 3 recorders, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 499162
Cantata for the Sunday after Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 3 recorders, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 499160
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 766822
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1043131
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 648815
Choralmotette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644928
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