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.
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813939
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811001
Die Geburt unsers Herren
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235988
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230708
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124096
for: Voices [children's choir], instruments
Item no.: 458570
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 335639
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 433491
Deutsche Weihnachtslieder aus Südosteuropa
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 376135
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825512
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122515
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125691
De Haske Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804007
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 552479
“Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit“
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 230448
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233082
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232956
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Orchesterstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 680144
Mitternachtsmesse zu Weihnachten
Urtext-Ausgabe – Musique sacrée française
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 678031
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388219
Cantus Ecclesiae 364
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 314055
A Cantata for Christmas, CD 10-PAK
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 798949
Preview CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1002756
Posters
for: Choir
Dekoration
Item no.: 1002503
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1001682
CD 10 Pak
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1002526
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002411
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 183450
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733251
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 679223
Cantatas IV-VI
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 579646
Timothy Seelig Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798597
10x SA / 10x TB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 260365
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 301780
Mass with Christmas hymns
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 774740
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 419879
zum Singen und Spielen
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Vocal score
Item no.: 1543985
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364982
Heinz Tust
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115071
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609745
e "Novi atque Catholici thesauri musici" Liber primus
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 310497
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985080
Pavane Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168875
Kirchenliedsaetze
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309105
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 306954
Europäische Weihnachtslieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 306909
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309594
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 646517
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