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.
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962280
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), accordion [organ]
Score
Item no.: 1667611
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1582801
The English Madrigalists 38
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 771904
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 905768
Simply Sacred Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556740
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1099127
(30-COPY PDF)
Choral Now
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 929292
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 331003
Oratorium in drei Akten
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) I/18,1+2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 882558
for a cappella choir
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1661626
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1634888
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101136
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628443
Ea254
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962072
for mixed chorus
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1544526
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 783417
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 776300
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 895386
A Masque
opera in three acts and a prologue
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 770781
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1031859
Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1043058
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 872301
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902068
Madrigal for Mixed Choir with Piano or Orchestra Accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]; 4 soloists (SATB) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1681977
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147208
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 929852
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895872
In High Voice
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212386
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659903
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899029
No. 1 from Three Festival Songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 894926
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343047
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 680904
Considerations and Techniques for the Advancing Conductor
for: Choir
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1561990
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 980815
Hymn (after a Song of Wisdom)
Autograph Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 932296
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1689196
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820504
J Palant: Brothers Sing On
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330910
New Voices Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 687205
Small Voices
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1645305
for: Mixed choir (SMezATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695453
Andeliga Sånger
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 985316
Der Musikforscher Malcolm Bruno erstellte auf Basis der inzwischen als Parodievorlage etablierten Trauerode BWV 198 eine neue Rekonstruktion des Werks
for: Narrator, 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1684833
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985401
Eric Whitacre Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582353
Swiss Composers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671538
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