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.
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590703
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592556
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591010
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590999
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Tambourine & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590997
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590993
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Tambourine & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590933
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Sleigh Bells [or Tambourine] & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590929
Sacred Music from the 21st to 26th Sunday after Trinity and from the first Advent to the 3rd Christmas Day
Georg Philipp Telemann. Musical Works 53
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868782
French Sacred Music
for: Mixed choir (4–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678051
12 Canti natalizi per coro a più voci ed organo
for: Mixed choir, organ
Book
Item no.: 990159
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1136598
für gemischten Chor und Orgel (Klavier), optional Blechbläser (2 Trompeten, Horn und Posaune)
John Festerman und den Old North Singers gewidmet
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 380901
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 327535
Europa singt – Italien
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273856
Spanish Christmas Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317455
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317404
Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317389
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317385
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317316
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317227
Incorporates Special Starlight by Carl Sandburg
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 903347
Director Edition
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1003345
2nd part singer
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002027
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002484
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805475
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804736
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803872
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815711
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814103
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813792
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812792
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812336
(from Oratorio de Noël, op. 12)
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746211
from Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798876
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798749
Discovery Level 2
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798469
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799987
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801001
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799495
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800481
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802066
(A Christmas Celebration)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801710
A Soulful Celebration
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813524
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1167587
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167535
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1167487
Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805805
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