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.
Alternative Version Of Verses 6 And 7
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 862713
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087073
Kantate (2. Sonntag nach Epiphanias)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285397
No. 52 From Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862185
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1658353
New Zealand Folksong
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817948
for: Male choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 580767
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 893661
Ricordi Vocal Score Series
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 746368
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862750
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 858108
Dramatisches Oratorium in 11 Szenen
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 228901
Cantata for the 7th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683060
Choral
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 317638
Contemporary Church Music
for: 2 mixed choirs (SAATBBSAATBB, SSATBBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315383
(Last Movement)
New Novello Choral Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 132421
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 767842
Version for Children's Choir
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 321706
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 776754
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 983116
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 982899
From Mozart's 12Th Mass
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951048
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867075
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862803
Contains the play and song words
Ages 5 to 9
Golden Apple
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Music score
Item no.: 335805
Secular Cantata No. 2
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [2 pianos]
Choir score
Item no.: 317725
Prüfungsliteratur
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1329760
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 810632
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798193
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807513
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 806261
from Glee
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 586986
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 564060
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
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814714
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814449
Dormi, dormi bel bambin
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901003
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660824
Scottish Folk Song
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660783
Shinpei Nakayama
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660774
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660767
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1627796
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1627679
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1627551
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano, guitar, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 1343419
Ye Sons of Israel Praise the Lord
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 318560
Psalm XXIII
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 297048
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