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.
Weihnachtskantate
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 169986
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 184321
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 187751
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428066
Pastoralmotette für gem Chor, 2 Violinen und Bc
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 215340
for: Male choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 217817
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 213895
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 178529
Geistliche Gesangsmusik 28~Organum Reihe 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 215808
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 207596
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 209839
"Nacht, mehr denn lichte Nacht"GeWV 36
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183718
Ehre sei Gott
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 181637
Lost's Brüder, wie singen die Engel so schön
for: Voice (high), mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 244704
for: Mixed choir, piano
Organ score
Item no.: 153190
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 149483
for: Mixed choir (ATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 458948
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 459652
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 248132
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 242907
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
PART / KA / KOPIE
Item no.: 153583
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271979
Gospels + Spirituals 12
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 289182
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455790
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 475653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 607255
Musikalische Gespräche über die Evangelia
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 cornetts [oboes/ violins], basso continuo
Cello [Basso continuo] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 371886
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 362053
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 457379
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 486348
A choral suite for Christmas
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 371115
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 370742
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 552477
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 246350
Dormi In Suavia
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 flutes, strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 365828
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097080
GIA Christmas
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153348
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 333768
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Part for horn (in E-flat)
Item no.: 291211
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308707
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 274877
über das Lied "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht", für gem. Chor, Orgel, 2 Melodieinstr ad lib
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 308276
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 584999
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001744
for: Mixed choir, organ
Book
Item no.: 989351
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920501
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808294
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 614950
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