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 (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960475
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 964551
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212551
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111078
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001746
Volume 2
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1158266
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 777969
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952908
(Canticle of the Rhone) For Mixed Chorus A Cappella
for: Choir
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 1625052
Seven Songs of Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158939
Walton Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985428
Men's Chorus
for: Male choir
Item no.: 1622841
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877398
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952825
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1621319
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1151797
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097280
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110842
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116000
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156576
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101135
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159920
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931259
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985278
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1149975
Oboe, Cello
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149709
In F
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1117528
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621046
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1109885
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168956
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916191
Pre-Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153631
for: Mixed choir, organ
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 951856
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110937
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925728
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915834
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101410
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938118
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212588
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 985657
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910056
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122397
Quittez, Pasteurs,Old French Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1617094
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952939
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002994
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952726
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326130
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