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.
Canticum Zachariae (Lukas 1, 68-79)
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 587479
for SATB choirop. 256; no. 7
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 587473
for SATB choirop. 256
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 610957
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 584576
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 362080
Liturgy
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1343023
Fantasie für Klavier, Chor und Orchester
Urtext nach der neuen Henle-Gesamtausgabe (früher HN 4664)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1668643
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212586
Osterdialog
Dialogo per la Pascua
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 232035
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 232612
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 886589
Fassung I für gem. Chor und Volksmusikinstrumente/Orgel
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1664702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335276
Show yourselves joyful to the Lord
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1160818
"aux chapelles"
for: 2 soloists (TB/SA), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 272559
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916450
Motette für vierstimmigen Männerchor
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 580138
für 5 Stimmen und Instrumente ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 375338
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1169142
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 620557
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 617472
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169247
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1169244
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169217
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1172593
O be joyfull in the Lord, all ye lands
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 120787
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 613040
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 370572
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 370570
Shadow Water Music
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 660314
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 444843
Cantum Vetus
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 202732
Thema aus den "Songs of Sanctuary"
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 371297
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861503
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 817410
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 817406
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 386343
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317737
(Choral Highlights)
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745101
(Choral Highlights)
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745100
Medley
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800908
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586710
Medley
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806020
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 336582
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 291641
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 1007640
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1005368
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 835242
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