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: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Choir score
Item no.: 1105651
Motette
for: Choir
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336752
Motette
for: Choir
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336750
aus: Zum Erntedank. Liturgische Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1336713
C-Dur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1161198
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1161129
Ausschnitte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1161127
Hymnus pro tempore Passionis Domini
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1161121
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800141
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811141
Disney Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1534577
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 580602
Missa in C Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Tr, 2 Trb, Timp, 2 Vl, Bc Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 630989
Psalm 98
Stimmensatz (Streicher 3-3-0-2)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 664966
Kantate zur Trauung
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 661356
Kantate zum 4. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 659828
Keltische Messe nach geistlichen Texten aus Irland und Schotland für Chor und Folk-Band
for: Mixed choir (SATB), Folk Band (violin, flute, harp, wheel fiddle, guitar, cello, drum)
Part Flute/Violin
Item no.: 606246
Keltische Messe nach geistlichen Texten aus Irland und Schotland für Chor und Folk-Band
for: Mixed choir (SATB), Folk Band (violin, flute, harp, wheel fiddle, guitar, cello, drum)
Single part hurdy-gurdy
Item no.: 606248
Frederick Delius. Complete Works
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1031910
Oper in vier Akten op. 29
Mit Krit. Kommentar in Russisch und Englisch sowie dem Faksimile des Entwurfs
Schostakowitsch – Neue Gesamtausgabe 53
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 767523
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1592547
Eine Kantate über die Schöpfung, Aggregatzustände und das Mysterium der Trinität
Für Kinder von 6–15 Jahren
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), narrator, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1632406
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1613340
aus: Italienische Madrigale
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1587023
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1587006
Der 84. Psalm
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586991
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586988
Der Herr ward gehorsam bis zum Tode
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586941
Introitus für das Trinitatisfest
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586934
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586829
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586823
Der gute Hirte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1586821
Psalm 13
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586776
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586775
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586761
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586753
Kleine Variationen über optimistische Aphorismen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586740
Fassung für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586720
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1659051
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1658448
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Trombone 1
Item no.: 1657361
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1655410
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1654966
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1654284
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1645532
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1642649
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1689816
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor, 2 Klaviere und Pauken ad lib (arr. S. Bartmann)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos; timpani ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1689709
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