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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100756
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609316
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123886
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168775
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319933
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126678
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904916
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168478
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325649
Based on Daniel 6
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825400
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077789
A Four-Song Preview
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 1155160
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867911
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341677
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824394
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1160139
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959509
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330490
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1057857
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330619
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620693
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125311
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1142504
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1173709
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1160571
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960095
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823646
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111772
An Epiphany Carol
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324523
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1091810
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 836766
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087193
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 964409
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959285
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126235
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003160
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096094
Schweizer Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 781580
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097264
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328160
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1086229
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085425
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003434
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907238
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124007
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 861548
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913024
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