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 (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746079
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746078
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746038
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745987
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745941
Music from "Rondo alla Turca"
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745906
for: Choir (2 voices), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696493
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 618791
for: Children's choir, instruments
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 616769
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 663985
Cantata for the 2nd day of Pentecost
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 132543
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747877
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 865866
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 619129
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [chamber orchestra]
Piano score
Item no.: 485906
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679444
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 332452
Det är en ros utsprungen
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691717
Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3246
Winter Wonderland
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1655214
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690607
Gospelsong (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730162
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760258
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760284
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760288
Upper Voice Collection
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 929100
We've Traveled Far
Christmas Carol
for: Solo voice (soprano / tenor), mixed choir (SATB), piano, tambourine, castanets
Choir score
Item no.: 1014251
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1059317
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124055
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760278
Tiefe Fassung
Lied zum orthodoxen Neujahrsfest
bekannt als "Carol of the Bells"
for: Children's choir (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 6819
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 583194
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732580
10 berühmte Pastoralsätze bearbeitet für gemischten Chor SATB (Orgel ad lib.)
inkl. Audio-CD - Chorleiterausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 614065
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1659036
10 pieces for a cappella choir
Musica Baltica
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 622442
Famous Gospel Songs and Spirituals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 553510
für Bariton, Chor und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 234565
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343061
A Children's Christmas Musical for Stage 2
for: Children's choir
CD
Item no.: 456040
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 377584
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649581
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965424
Traditional English Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891824
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 810685
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809481
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810945
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 809191
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