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), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 491173
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 488146
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475482
Cantata for the Sunday after Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 3 recorders, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 616052
Oratorio de Noël (Ausgabe nach dem Erstdruck von 1869)
Fassung mit deutschem Text
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 189238
Weihnachtskonzert H 421 (1698-1699)
Französische Kirchenmusik
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSA) [children's choir], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 184997
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Study score
Item no.: 164116
Böhmische Hirtenmesse
Frei gedichteter Messtext alternativ in deutscher oder tschechischer Sprache
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 160198
Cantata for the 1st day of Christmas
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 137437
BR-CPEB E 4
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 234191
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920396
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809726
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 188490
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815489
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815239
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814567
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813631
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813213
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811928
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811298
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810996
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810941
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810552
with We Wish You a Merry Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810085
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810074
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809758
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804440
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804073
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 801604
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 371350
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807398
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807387
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806857
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 806532
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805214
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803806
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803454
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 645641
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815152
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812681
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810633
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807658
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807415
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 579126
for mixed chorus, optional children's chorus and small orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 474882
Fifty Christmas Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123445
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 809694
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805376
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