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.
Handsome Butcher Apple The Old Woman
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901141
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 901042
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901040
Fairy Tale, from Suite for Chorus, Op. 69, No. 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901034
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 900910
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 900908
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900892
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900846
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 900824
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900822
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900756
Francisco Núñez Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900589
Klassik
for: Choir (1 voice), organ [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 900172
Oxford Choral Songs
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891595
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 891554
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891475
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 891445
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891109
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 891032
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 891025
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 890787
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 890779
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890750
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890670
LKM Music
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 883571
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 883511
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 884673
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 884647
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 884486
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 884460
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 884338
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 884151
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 883944
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 883932
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 880410
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 879981
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 879686
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 879009
Markus-Passion
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 878882
for: 5 voices [mixed choir] a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 922070
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 921354
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 923959
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903542
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903501
No. 2. Motet for the Nativity of the Mother of God
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903408
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 903360
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 903291
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903169
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