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.
Voices Rising
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano; violin, cello, percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1562541
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557040
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1550944
John Rutter Anniversary Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 648088
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 865054
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 864284
Word of God now made incarnate
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 471421
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 460559
Oxford Sacred BC62
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 460540
Oxford Anthems
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 460497
for SATB and optional percussion
for: Mixed choir (SATB); percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 443698
Tudor Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 123442
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 691647
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 690187
A Choral Celebration
for: Children's choir (one voice), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 689598
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 687658
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [chamber orchestra]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 687655
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 686920
for soprano, upper voices, mixed chorus and piano (percussion ad lib)
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662070
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 920854
on this day earth shall ring
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 920808
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 866587
Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century
Kodaly Today Handbook Series
for: School class
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 887217
for: Choir
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 770768
Kantate zum Reformationsfest (Rekonstruktion der ersten Leipziger Fassung)
möglich!
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 681159
Cantata for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany – "Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange"
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (revised edition)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681137
geeignet für den Adventsgottesdienst
Französische Kirchenmusik – Urtext (erste kritische Ausgabe)
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679014
Cantata for the 3rd Sunday in Advent (Reconstruction)
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 675044
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
– Graduated prices on request –
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685547
Cantata for a wedding
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683066
Hunting Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 797987
O be joyful
Urtext Stuttgart Handel-Editions
for: 3 soloists (AAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 779152
Cantata for Trinity Sunday
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 565033
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 556000
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1657513
Eingangschor aus der Kantate zum 2. Pfingsttag
Telemann-Archiv
for: Women's choir SS/ SA) [mixed choir (SSB/ SAB)], basso continuo; string instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1653050
Score in English
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549069
Reconstruction by Klaus Hofmann
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1316878
"Christ lag in Todes Banden"
Cantata for Easter Sunday
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 232737
Cantata for the Sunday of Septuagesimae
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 233455
Kantate zum Reformationsfest
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 233309
Mehrchöriges Konzert aus: Psalmen Davids mixolydisch SWV 47 (op. 2, 26) (1619)
für Favoritchor (AT), gem Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
for: Favorit choir (at), chapell choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 231771
Kantate für sechs Einzelstimmen, sechsstimmigen Capell-Chor ad libitum, zwei Violinen, 2 Violen, Violone und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Buxtehude-Ausgaben
for: 6 voices (SSATBB) [mixed choir], strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234338
Der romantische Klassiker aus dem Broadway-Musical West Side Story, arrangiert für gemischten Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 189534
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1010428
Herr! Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorne
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 666660
nach Fragmenten und Skizzen eingerichtet von Johann Simon Kreuzpointner
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 666639
Kantate zur Trauung
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 661348
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