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.
2-Part and Piano
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168466
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168948
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168878
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168746
Pavane Secular
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168857
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168759
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168739
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168638
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168564
Pavane Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168563
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168321
for SSATB Chorus
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 877306
Integrity Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330744
Integrity Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330678
(Accompaniment CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1330633
Deutsche Volkslieder No. 6
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1031869
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906345
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 380803
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388227
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387710
Motette für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388023
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387690
für 3 Violinen, Bass, gemischten Chor und Orgel (Oboe ad lib.)
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 387490
for: Male choir
Item no.: 387042
Bearbeitung für 4-stimmigen Männerchor
* Originaltonart: C-Dur
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 386471
für Männerchor
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 385428
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (one part), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1344140
lieferbar nur über Verlag
Peters Contemporary Library
for: Male choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 638637
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 778103
Oxford Choral Songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 628159
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 627975
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920408
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920262
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920177
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893964
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893849
Hob. XXII:12
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 604189
Church Music Society publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893589
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.: 890192
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890052
Unterrichtsmaterial
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889768
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889556
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889143
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889129
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