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: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342846
Lyre Series
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1547311
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342328
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342606
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924126
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 923610
Um die Welt geht unser Lied
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342848
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342162
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342164
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914549
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342851
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911864
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342951
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342002
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1161374
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557000
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342144
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341627
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342333
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906981
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342031
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905127
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1559842
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913004
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342296
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342972
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777782
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932072
für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679825
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341540
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341572
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 913132
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341465
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342165
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931558
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342631
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342465
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342896
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342710
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342138
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341492
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342363
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904747
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342603
The Rosephanye Powell Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582116
"Hin ist alle meine Kraft"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740077
Große Oper in fünf Akten
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 1331539
op. 66/1
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1660264