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.
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801348
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808968
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806486
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804804
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803036
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805964
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814073
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812368
Text und Melodie: um 1800, aus dem Salzburger Land
Bearbeitung für Frauenchor F-Dur
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 655804
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965631
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965591
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965472
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965377
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802336
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802129
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800539
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 662723
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802334
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 304357
22 International Songs of the Season
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 309195
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SSA), flute, clarinet, strings, harp
Score
Item no.: 1555843
Weihnachtskantate
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 610791
Eine Folge volkstümlicher Weihnachtslieder
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 204564
Reichersberger Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 658303
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 649111
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 494595
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 489462
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684986
Kleine Motette
Liedsatz aus "Der Jahrkreis" op. 5 (1932/33)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115835
Motette
musica sacra nova
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115432
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 884447
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 242759
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287172
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Nr. 5 aus "Fünf Weihnachtsmotetten"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 662594
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764120
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 680774
SATB Full Score Version 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 909199
Ave Maria SSA + Klavier
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score, Piano score, Organ score
Item no.: 493055
Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis'
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 119689
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 119469
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 melodic instruments, organ; bass ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231020
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 420002
kleine Weihnachtskantate op. 15g
for: Mixed choir (SSABar), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 230490
aus: Sechsstimmige Fest- und Zeitandachten, Dresden 1671
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 422051
Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano; latin percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1014369
Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798639
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 799704
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798988
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