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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123209
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1617113
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1076869
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620868
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124744
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913919
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126326
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913565
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825493
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325749
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1160185
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153513
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212483
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910763
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907825
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122313
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126288
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142670
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1178277
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 834944
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1102104
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 917037
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1619830
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002859
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609630
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342733
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123232
Kyrie Eleison
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1621208
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122533
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155027
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320346
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 840682
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915212
for: Choir
Item no.: 1346027
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110545
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001612
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100839
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 959715
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142361
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915508
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154729
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101375
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825046
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960462
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 827194
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148061
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123155
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002100
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