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.
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Item no.: 375855
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043508
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 472994
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 340995
Klavierauszug
Klavierauszug
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 227881
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 632947
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 645085
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647274
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 368091
for: Male choir
Item no.: 350692
for: Male choir
Item no.: 133277
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 820325
Klassik
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 819764
Ballade für einen Verrückten
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1032089
Urtext (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 326263
Urtext (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 326262
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 216037
Oratorio
for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 241121
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 290080
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 290079
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 155623
"Theresienmesse"
Urtext nach der Gesamtausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 214012
Urtextausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 184213
3. Thron der Liebe, Stern der Güte!op. 18
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183714
(1876/77)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 183003
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 195688
Osterspruch nach einem Text von Herger (um 1180)
– Sonderanfertigung –
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 195590
Volkslied aus der Bretagne
La cloche sonne l'Angelus
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 195580
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 194525
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 194523
1. Frühlingstag
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 281162
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 281110
2 Rondos - Nr. 2: Kommt lasst uns allesamtop. 73
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 287895
Ausgabe B: für gleiche St. a capp.
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 283460
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202576
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202480
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202431
2. Herzliebster Jesu
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202363
WAB 28
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 467947
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 466302
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 380212
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 445795
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 444007
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 565581
Nr. 1 Mein Odem ist schwach
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 175673
für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) und Bassinstrument ad libitum
Einzelstimme Bassinstrument
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB); bass instrument ad lib
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 678243
für vierstimmigen Frauenchor mit Klavierbegleitung (ad libitum)
op. 44 - Sopran 1
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir part Soprano 1
Item no.: 668845
Och Moder ich well en Ding han
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 870448
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