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.
aus: Messiah 1 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Choir part Soprano/Alto
Item no.: 279252
Tizenkét spiritualé
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255786
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 655451
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 697600
(from The Lion King)
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 697599
(Choral Highlights)
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 697590
(Choral Highlights)
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 697589
from Frozen II
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 696945
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695091
Discovery Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 693487
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 643598
An arrangement of Simon and Garfunkel’s classic song
for mixed chorus (SATB) with full piano accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 685330
for female chorus and piano (organ)
Texts by Nick Fawcett
Volume 1
for: Women's choir (SA), piano [organ]
Piano score
Item no.: 473519
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 473076
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 473067
A rhythmic, jazz setting of the traditional spiritual for high school or college choir, medium difficulty
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 459942
King's Singers Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470033
Fundamental Vocal Techniques for Classroom and General Use
for: Youth choir
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 468231
Ötszólamú dalok
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 466338
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 564060
Cantata No. 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2–3 pianos, percussion (6 parts)
Choir score
Item no.: 563933
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 562880
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 578122
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 587013
from Glee
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 586986
Ready-to-Use Resource Material for the Choir Rehearsal
Methodology Chorals
for: Choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 488987
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798193
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 762078
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 762073
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762028
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 761960
from Oklahoma!
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 761913
from Oklahoma!
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 761908
(The River Sleeps Beneath the Sky)
Discovery Level 1
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746363
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746321
Discovery Level 1
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746239
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 767842
abridged concert version
A secular oratorio HWV 58
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766210
Eugene Rogers Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765874
(from Toy Story)
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 765598
The Music of Rollo Dilworth
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 692205
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 690707
Opera in Five Acts by Eugène Scribe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 774013
Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 798142
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798089
(with "Lean On Me")
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 798077
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 798070
from "Pitch Perfect 2"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798046
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