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.
für gem Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 663392
(Great Britain)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741271
Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 658777
Johann Hinrich Wichern erfindet den Adventskranz
Musical für Kinder und Erwachsene
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 487373
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 494962
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 585864
Auf Weihnachten
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 279185
Musica Practica 12
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 272529
aus: Magnificat - BWV 243a, 2
Es-Dur-Fassung, transponiert nach D-Dur
4 Instrumente colla parte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 235529
Weihnachtsmusical für Kinder
for: Children's choir, instruments
Instrumental parts
Item no.: 601464
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918179
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655693
Together We Sing Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122917
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 182102
2-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917936
für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel oder für Orgel allein
Nach dem Urtext herausgegeben und mit einer Orgelbegleitung versehen von Albert Kupp
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; orchestra ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 336059
Motet a 15
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae" Nr. 25
Eulenburg Octavo Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs, wind ensemble, organ
Score
Item no.: 576304
Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 144439
for: Male choir
Item no.: 361251
84 alte und neue Volkslieder in leichten vierstimmigen Chorsätzen sowie 15 Kanons
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 265851
Weihnachtskantate für zweistimmigen Kinderchor, Kammerorchester und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Children's choir (2 voices), Chamber orchestra, piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 635159
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 350390
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 344547
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803141
Full Performance and Accompaniment only
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809153
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808200
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805474
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809695
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815513
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813030
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812157
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811751
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804591
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805821
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811586
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1169595
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905453
Novello Voices Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901468
(Collection)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 117141
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 697297
Temas de nuestro folklore armonizado a dos voces iguales
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 775548
für gemischten Chor und Instrumente
Englisch / Niederländisch, Roger Wagner gewidmet
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 381050
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; latin percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777748
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 386058
Teil II: Die Kantaten zum Sonntag nach Weihnachten bis Epiphanias
Denkmäler Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik II / 6
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 656701
Unsere schönsten Weihnachts- und Winterlieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 556525
Chorheft 1: Advent / Weihnachten
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 672900
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 148136
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