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.
Christmas motet
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795688
Chorheft Nr. 12 - Kindlwiegen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751758
(16. Jh.)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746871
Mel.: 15. Jahrhundert; geistlich Erfurt 1524 (Epiphanias)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753378
Str. 5: Köln 1574; Mel.: Frankfurt/Main 1569 (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744555
aus: "Newe Weihnacht Liedlein mit vier und acht Stimmen componiret"
Helmstadt, 1586
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5702
Geborn ist der Emanuel
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2328
aus "Musae Sioniae", Jena 1607
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), organ [mixed choir (SATB), brass ensemble, organ]
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1278
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795698
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732572
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751472
Lieder des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725390
Mel.: Böhmische Brüder 1661 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730062
nach einem flämischen Lied aus dem 17. Jh.
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725392
Schweizer Sterndreherlied für gemischten Chor (SAB)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2386
trad. seit 1850
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731847
Aus BWV 248 Nr. 42: Choral "Jesus richte mein Beginnen"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 759466
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747965
Es waren Hirten zu Bethlehem
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2334
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761143
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761223
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730714
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)]
Music score
Item no.: 731578
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753396
op. 176, Nr. 7
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4389
aus op. 5; Mel.: Frankfurt/Main 1557 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753398
Mel.: bei Bartholomäus Gesius 1601
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737818
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1336934
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340250
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1338339
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338041
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338001
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1337993
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1338530
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339594
aus: Zwölf deutsche geistliche Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339482
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733390
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1219662
for youth orchestra and children choir
for: Children's choir (SA), orchestra
Score, piano reduction, solo parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1450
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 742329
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738389
nach dem Kanon "Ave Maria"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 722947
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733557
Galopp
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 760501
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 725022
Einsiedeln 12. Jh., Martin Luther 1524
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725378
15. Jh., nach "Quem pastores laudavere" bzw. "nunc angelorum gloria"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725380
Weihnachtslieder des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725401
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