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.
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151685
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959411
C Instrument, Trumpet in Bb, String Quartet
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150957
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1101922
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 858227
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 1110636
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959652
for: Choir
Item no.: 1620996
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1159940
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 924154
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1121897
Trumpet
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1156169
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 978984
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856060
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111123
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score, CD
Item no.: 959342
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155468
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 938521
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1152974
For S.S.A. Chorus and Keyboard
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626004
Stille Nacht
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077519
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909659
Geistliche Musik
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1317080
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110206
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110882
C Instrument
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1156819
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150387
Original Broadway Musical
Choral Highlights
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 682525
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040347
Gute Nacht
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1038960
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960436
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097477
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110995
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907437
Two-Part
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917782
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 867433
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100691
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111787
A Bilingual Setting of the Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
Item no.: 1159675
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111771
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1170592
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097716
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908679
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1530391
Möseler Chorreihe
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 781822
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092096
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915890
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117259
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