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: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747883
"Sie sagt, ich könnt nicht singen"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742619
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751478
Konstanz 1613
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725774
Volkslied aus Schweden
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 739707
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725856
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761227
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761228
"Aus des Tages Hetze und Hast"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742624
(Weihnachten
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730077
(Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730076
(Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730075
Text und Mel.: Leipziger Handschrift 15. Jahrhundert (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730042
Mel: 15. Jahrhundert; Text: Str. 1-2 vorreformat., Str. 3: Berlin 1853 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730036
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730032
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744752
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744751
Text: Str. 1 u. 4 nach Ambrosius Lobwasser 1573; Str. 3 Fritz Enderlin 1952 nach Ps. 118 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744554
nach BWV 252
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740352
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760610
Frankfurt 1659
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758592
Gesangbuch Joseph Klug 1543/nach dem lat. " puer natus in Bethlehem"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758590
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753402
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317614
GL 241 (ö)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725752
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725810
(Germany)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726430
for: Women's choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760828
(France)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756210
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761230
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755723
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740738
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741143
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 742331
Fränkisches Volkslied
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742628
Liturgie (aus der Sequenz "Dies irae")
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725788
Melodie nach "O Gott, nimm an die Gaben" (GL 499)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755709
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751472
"Auch die Liebe braucht Gewitter"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742618
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747965
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: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209073
2. Tageslied "Wenn durch die Nebelfrühe"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742622
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755720
Motette (Sonderdruck aus dem Antiqua-Chorbuch I/2)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751723
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209076
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925318
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