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.
Urtext
Das Kuhnau-Projekt
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Cornett 2
Item no.: 1639188
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 838404
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 836997
German Chorus Score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 836696
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824277
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898176
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168564
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825970
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823574
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823390
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823374
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823366
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 825728
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085900
Flute
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160258
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1209693
SAB
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160894
SATB a cappella
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1161051
SATB, Sopran-Solo ad lib. a cappella
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160940
Cantiones sacrae, No. 13
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160629
Chanson des Bois d'Amaranthe
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136517
for: Mixed choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 998474
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1018724
Ballade für einen Verrückten
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1032089
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043429
Breitkopf UrtextZWV 152
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1105853
Volkslied aus der Schweiz
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1160960
Oper/Operette
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932027
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 910751
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148081
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101101
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914315
der 100. Psalm
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1161905
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342184
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931757
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608458
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938291
For S.S.A. Chorus With Piano Accompaniment
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1625900
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1093001
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326200
Brass quintet - 2 Trumpets in B-flat or C, Horn in F, 2 Trombones- Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1154723
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 840416
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325795
for: Children's choir
Sammelband
Item no.: 644130
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1121998
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824782
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959998
For Four Part Mixed Chorus
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1619527
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