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.
Flute
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150021
Full Score
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1150976
Trumpet, Clarinet, or Oboe
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150954
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1160928
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158979
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925485
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092240
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122307
C Instrument
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1155038
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1621301
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003135
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111325
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328267
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912115
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142744
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931150
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341945
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123436
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326916
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123385
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110966
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097043
4 octaves Handbells
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150741
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003315
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1085256
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320545
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 778816
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124288
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609139
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002024
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002166
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916012
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1172305
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324327
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111669
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1152771
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959590
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985126
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1109853
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122508
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953724
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115554
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110347
Accompaniment Tracks
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123202
GIA Evoking Sound
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1160453
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151922
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1345960
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952610
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