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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123284
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122606
Mark Foster
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 826369
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126336
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 577036
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843849
for: Choir (one voice), flute, guitar, latin percussion
Music score
Item no.: 1014951
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167682
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 579651
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Komplettes Orchestermaterial
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649782
für Soli, Chor, 2 Trompeten, Pauken, 2 Trompeten, Pauken, Streicher und Orgel
Musik aus Ostbayern Heft 7a
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 446638
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 781070
Lieder zur Weihnachtszeit für Chor und Instrumente
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 489277
KV 109 (74e)
Einzelstimme Vl. 2
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235063
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 234813
aus: Opella Nova (1618), Teil 1
for: Mixed choir (SST), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 326137
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 232505
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237464
Thee With Tender Care, Break Forth O Beauteous
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898621
A Cantata of Carols in Four Suites (ChoirTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 965388
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803300
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803046
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815672
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810595
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806624
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019069
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814353
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813549
(ShowTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811966
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809936
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808999
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808764
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 877929
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 292767
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608998
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609912
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608710
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001806
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002059
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002062
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1167765
A Christmas Musical for Children
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167601
A Christmas Musical for Children
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167581
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Baritone saxophone (E-flat)
Item no.: 291207
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 123947
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 766821
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1544095
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801904
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