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.
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1041511
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124131
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1041645
Arrangements of Familiar Hymns and Songs for Solo Guitar and C Instrument
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1150860
Helgoländer Kanonmesse
for: Mixed choir (3 Stimmen), Instrumente
Choir score
Item no.: 1611209
aus der Oper "Iphigenie in Aulis"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 762132
Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Das Schottener Kantatenarchiv Volume 33
for: 3 soloists (ATB) [mixed choir (4 voices)], 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 691122
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 832126
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 918688
für gemischten Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 2956
Per Il Perfezionamento Della Vocalità
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 998329
Home on the range
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1665103
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342561
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125319
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 855481
Vier neue Bilder für Soli, Chor, zwei Klaviere und Akkordeon
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 664910
für gemischten Chor und Instrumente
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 672729
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855535
aus dem "Passions-Oratorium", op. 45
Motette für achtstimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella in F-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 660120
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087066
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343411
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 663616
Dankkantate
Klingende Schätze der Marienkirche Weißenfels, Band 3
Chorpartitur und Stimmen auf Anfrage
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 670852
Madrigal on a poem (Unruhvoll und reiselüstern) by Hermann Hesse
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 688564
(The Seagulls)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1560807
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984547
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1557694
GIA Guitar Part
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157450
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121297
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123592
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924170
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123214
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919202
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856994
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 641086
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722966
Oratorium für Sprecher, vierstimmig gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 684350
De Haske Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 884865
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124688
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122990
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 693526
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810037
10 Reproducible Chorals for Tenor and Baritone Voices
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1656341
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126702
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125744
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125721
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125388
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123898
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