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.
from Oklahoma!
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 761908
(The River Sleeps Beneath the Sky)
Discovery Level 1
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746363
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746321
Discovery Level 1
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746239
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 767842
abridged concert version
A secular oratorio HWV 58
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766210
Eugene Rogers Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765874
(from Toy Story)
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 765598
The Music of Rollo Dilworth
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 692205
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 690707
Opera in Five Acts by Eugène Scribe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 774013
Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 798142
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798089
(with "Lean On Me")
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 798077
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 798070
from "Pitch Perfect 2"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798046
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797698
Choral Exploration
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797656
King's Singers Choral
Editions Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 687584
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 686927
for: Children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 686576
from Mary Poppins Returns
ShowTrax CD
Disney Choral
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745729
from Mary Poppins Returns
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745710
(From Dear Evan Hansen)
ShowTrax CD
Broadway Choral
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745670
Andrea Ramsey Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745554
from Materna Requiem
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745551
(from The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745549
Discovery Level 1
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745352
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745345
ShowTrax CD
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745195
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745182
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745124
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745021
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 744997
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 744957
from Coco
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 744942
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 744837
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 697636
Inclusive Songs for Whole-group Singing
for: School choir, piano
Score, online audio
Item no.: 697611
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697608
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 612019
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 659860
1963 pop hit by the Beach Boys arranged for 2 part Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 658263
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 636924
Nr. 7: It was a lover and his lass - Ein Bursche und sein Mädel schön
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 623282
No. 4 of "Four Advent Introits"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ, handbells
Score
Item no.: 628270
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 616695
für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB), Streichquartett und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 616290