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: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 471429
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, parish, organ; brass winds, chamber orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 308291
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308138
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308136
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308114
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308073
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308030
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892696
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892120
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890920
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889143
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920408
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920262
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920177
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893849
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890192
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890052
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 888960
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 888750
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 888105
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 886011
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889768
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865892
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 865798
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865778
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865729
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628168
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 627975
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 638141
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672628
Süddeutsche Kirchenmusik des Barock Band 24
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 607622
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), viola, cello
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1121037
Marienantiphon
Die Neuausgabe basiert auf der autographen Partitur, die seit dem 2. Weltkrieg als verschollen galt, 1964 aber wieder aufgefunden wurde.
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235001
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1192714
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1192713
ZWV 145
Einzelstimme Vc. (Kb.)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236201
Marienantiphon
Die Neuausgabe basiert auf der autographen Partitur, die seit dem 2. Weltkrieg als verschollen galt, 1964 aber wieder aufgefunden wurde.
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235003
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 672629
Offertorium de S. Joanne Baptista KV 72 (74f)
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234854
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Trumpet 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1192711
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Trombone 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1192710
Marienantiphon
Die Neuausgabe basiert auf der autographen Partitur, die seit dem 2. Weltkrieg als verschollen galt, 1964 aber wieder aufgefunden wurde.
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 235011
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 373120
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 373119
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Trumpet 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1192712
für Tenor (S), gemischten Chor, Violine und Orgel (Harfe ad libitum)
Harfe
for: Solo voice (S/T), mixed choir (SATB), violin, organ; harp ad lib.
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 630425
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1192707
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