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.
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317510
Eulenburg Octavo Edition
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 345282
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1162593
Two Songs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950235
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950010
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951414
Kantate zum Neujahrsfest HoWV II.29
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 772190
D 379
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 423781
Magnificat des Druckes Nürnberg 1567. 24 Kompositionen zu 6, 5 und 4 Stimmen, jeweils in den acht Tönen (Primi Toni - Octavi Toni). Anhang
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 13
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116268
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115786
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115762
Collected Christmas Chronicles for Unison and 2-Part Voices
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 893518
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422160
KV 49
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 1556909
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 294458
Die Kantate 108
for: Soloist (soprano), children's choir (1 voice), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 279122
Weihnachtsintroitus
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Score
Item no.: 230969
Messe für die Heilige Christnacht
Revidierte und liturgisch ergänzte Neuauflage
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score
Item no.: 327041
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 630466
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 579126
Weihnachtskantate
for: Mixed choir (SABar), flute, oboe, strings
Choir score
Item no.: 617741
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Score
Item no.: 409575
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 157426
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460549
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867732
Missa in Honorem Nativitatis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 365820
für gem Chor und Orgel
Partitur
for: Mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 119359
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 344211
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 469097
Die schönsten Lieder für die Weihnachtszeit aus den Alpenländern für 23 Singstimmen mit Begleitharmonien gesetzt
for: Voices [children's choir], instruments
Songbook
Item no.: 407645
für gem Chor und Orgel Chorpartitur (dt)
Vereinfachte und gekürzte Fassung.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [harmonium]
Choir score
Item no.: 123872
Advents-, Weihnachts- und Winterlieder für junge Chöre
for: Women's choir (SA) [Mixed choir (SAM)], piano
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 769344
Wie die Weihnachtsbotschaft in die Welt kam
Singspiel für Kinder von 6 bis 10 Jahren
for: Children's choir, piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 686654
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377572
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377530
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377090
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377080
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376304
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375414
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374192
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373882
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373501
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373114
Hymnus in Dominicis et Feriis Adventus Domini
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3535
In festo nativitatis Christi
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 4425
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 647809
(Ireland)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756212
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