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.
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857168
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918810
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655729
GIA Hymnals
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151111
TTBB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919424
SATB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919247
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039005
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040047
2-3 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856244
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040169
Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154341
SATB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919381
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 908988
Three Festival Choruses
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1077378
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038689
Two-Part w/opt. C Inst. & Bass
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857027
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040959
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 859323
Trumpet (Bb or C)
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1156671
for: Choir
Study score
Item no.: 1040549
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1107997
From Corelli to Kabalevsky
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1159405
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101169
4-5 oct.
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 859517
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343091
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919493
2-3 Oct. w/opt. 2-3 oct. Handchimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 859142
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906392
Hinshaw Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058618
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815863
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040037
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157833
from A Time for Alleluia
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125420
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856502
What God Resolves
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039685
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 914725
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1621355
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1585758
SSATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 859893
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1039870
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 860509
GIA Hymnals
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158915
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856041
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151530
Hail, Virgin Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040274
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101447
Blue pew edition
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 859438
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