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.
May You Heal Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1550947
Opera in Five Acts by Eugène Scribe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 774013
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532372
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1610915
from Ireland
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754636
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835042
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1640506
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101262
Walton Choral
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 985714
for 32 voices
for: 32 voices
Score
Item no.: 1560119
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, violin
Score
Item no.: 695116
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168924
Gentry Publications
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326996
Traditional Folk Hymn
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1673139
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534552
Book & CD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 985310
Unison Teacher Edition
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 808266
Sounds of a Better World
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SA), djembé, piano
Score
Item no.: 687712
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 889010
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1635241
From Love Shall Live Forever
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 895819
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 632893
Scottish Folk Song
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660783
aus dem Musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1667047
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 890095
In homage to Langston Huges
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 686669
Cantata
for: Soloist (baritone), orchestra; women's choir (SSAA) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 930703
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1627796
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA); tambourine ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1672122
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1560144
Kantate nach Moses I, 11, 1-9
for: Narrator, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351248
Nr. 7: It was a lover and his lass - Ein Bursche und sein Mädel schön
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 623282
Dormi, dormi bel bambin
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901003
Melodious Partsongs by this unjustly neglected Victorian Composer
Theatre of Voices Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 768192
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962113
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760227
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805317
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1317902
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964811
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 872991
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901527
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982832
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982673
Domestics - Six Choral Cameos
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317956
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317769
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983117
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 983116
From Mozart's 12Th Mass
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951048
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