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.
Schönheit dieser Welt vergeht
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644996
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746880
Liebliche Blume - Nr. 2 aus op. 48
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043852
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1109003
for: Narrator, Children's choir (1-2 parts), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ; the parish ad lib.
Viola, cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1653593
Madrigal
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 792482
for: Women's choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 647114
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 497535
6. Spottlied - Rugalica
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742452
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 641553
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 748770
4. Heidenröslein "Sah ein Knab ein Röslein stehn"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740076
1. Der römische Brunnen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 738915
"Zwei verliebte kleine Vögel" (griechisches Volkslied)
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742641
(Irland)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751929
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341633
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911575
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342224
5. The devil a monk would be - Art lässt nicht von Art
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751848
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341521
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925994
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341655
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342486
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906012
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341577
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 1006025
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341466
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341634
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925850
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342525
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341470
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1117609
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342163
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907178
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931873
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916410
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925858
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924081
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342897
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 854555
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1559579
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097393
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329026
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1640201
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1200639
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1105680
5. Kreszenz "Kreszenz! Wo hamma denn unsern alten Schludribudri"
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 752202
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 646821
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