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 (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 279333
Eine kurze, festliche Originalkomposition für dreistimmige Solo- und Chorbesetzung.
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SABar), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 302033
Chor im Anfang
Leichte Chorsätze für gleiche Stimmen
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 409499
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 292401
aus "D. M. Luthers und anderer vornehmen geistreichen und gelehrten Männer geistliche Lieder", 1653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2599
für gemischten Chor, Sopransaxophon, Klavier und Schlagzeug
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Score
Item no.: 665356
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334000
12 Lieder und Weisen für Advent, Weihnachten und den Gottesdienst
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 273843
Words from the Church of Ireland Book of Common Prayer (adapted)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 609409
Christmas Cantata with 14 choral songs from Latin America
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 1015368
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418647
nach dem gleichnamigen Kanon
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 759467
Midnight Mass for Christmas
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 662065
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Stimmen-Set (Streicher)
Item no.: 587040
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/6
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 185389
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 409572
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 333053
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123458
aus: "Neu-gepflanzter Thüringischer Lust-Garten" (Mühlhausen 1657)
for: Mixed choir, cornett, 3 trombones [strings], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4689
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 139084
Mark Foster
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 576676
op. posth. (1871)
eingerichtet für Frauenchor und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 5746
A quattro voci concertato con Organo
Erstveröffentlichung
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 365971
Der Lobgesang der Maria
Magnifikat
for: Mixed choir [5 voices] (SSATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 2 violas ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 229709
für 6-stimmigen Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1671982
aus "D. M. Luthers und anderer vornehmen geistreichen und gelehrten Männer geistliche Lieder", 1653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2754
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 225271
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 669184
& Epiphany for Mixed Voice Choirs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 292698
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 473344
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 579721
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 490347
aus "Erster Theil Geistlicher Concerten", Greifswald 1641
Ausgabe für zwei Solostimmen (S/A) oder Kinderchor, zwei Violinen (Altblockflöten) und B. c.
for: Children's choir (SA) [2 voices], 2 violins [recorders (AA)], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2282
Gotteslob 238
Gemeindelied im Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 370390
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 146256
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
(latein)
Item no.: 138251
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1337107
Alte und neue Lieder zu Winter, Advent und Weihnachten
for: Children's choir
Audio-CD
Item no.: 625602
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 134900
33 Werke aus alter und neuer Zeit
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 580129
Weihnachtsoratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB), strings, bandoneon, piano, timpani, percussion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 628658
Oratorium in Festo Nativitatis Christi (GraunWV Bv:IX:18)
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302773
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 587119
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 460536
aus: Sechs Marianische Hymnen
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 366756
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 269194
A Christmas Cantata
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 455885
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 149520
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