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.
Psaume symphonique en trois parties – Symphonischer Psalm in drei Teilen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120388
Opera Vocal Score Series (Ricordi)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 586545
aus der neuen Gesamtausgabe
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 273123
à 3. 7. & 11
aus: Polyhymnia caduceatrix et panegyrica
Wolfenbüttel, 1619
for: 3 soloists (SSB), mixed choir (SATB), cornett, 3 trombones, strings, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5847
A Cappella Spirituals & Gospel Songs
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 496587
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123406
(Alto Rhapsody)
for: Soloist (alto), male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683357
(1) Espana en el corazón nach Gedichten von Lorca und Neruda - (2) Y su sangre ya viene cantando - (3) Memento - Romance de la Guardia civil espanola
Musik unserer Zeit
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 103130
Choralkantate für Sopran, gemischten Chor und Streicher
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235597
für Tenor (S), gemischten Chor, Violine und Orgel (Harfe ad libitum)
for: Solo voice (S/T), mixed choir (SATB), violin, organ; harp ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 338933
für Chor (SATB), auch mit Instrumenten/ Orchester
vollständige Partituren
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 492598
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 498341
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116577
Chor- und Begleitsätze zur gleichnamigen LP-Serie
Band 2
Die neuen religiösen Lieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142055
Süßmayr-Version
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 329462
Trinklied (Alfredo, Violetta) aus der Oper "La Traviata"
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (pdf download)
Item no.: 1833
in der Bearbeitung von Heinrich Ritter von Spengel (1852)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1012535
Dresdner und Pariser Fassung in Szenenfolge
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 20
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382592
Reduzierte Fassung
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 301278
CG 65a
for: 3 soloists (TTB), male choir (TTB), organ
Score
Item no.: 423636
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 672532
(Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 287131
Eine deutsche Oper in zwei Aufzügen
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196723
Fragments Symphoniques
Urtext der Suiten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1612022
Music Drama in One Act op. 54after Oscar Wilde's Poem of the Same Name
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214248
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579886
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 369687
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 143368
Musikalische Komödie in fünf Bilder
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128232
New Completion
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340581
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389149
für Frauenchor (SA) und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 302955
Die schönsten Volks- und Kirchenlieder in leichten dreistimmigen Sätzen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 181122
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 voices (SA), strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 154676
archive copy
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 609825
for mixed chorus a cappella score
with piano part for rehearsal
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670070
Chorwerke mit Orgelbegleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 359630
Matthaeus 27.46
Máté 27.46
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850986
Operetta in three actes
Allowed reprint (1906, Doblinger, Wien)
spiral-bound
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1203304
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392137
Chor- und Begleitsätze zur gleichnamigen LP-Serie
Band 4
Die neuen religiösen Lieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142058
Operette in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128161
oder Der durch Verschlagenheit erlangte Thron oder Die mit der Neigung glücklich Verknüpfte Ehre
BEMF Opera Series Vol. II
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 457364
for Choir and Piano
for: Choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 681826
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1149288
für Männerchor mit Klavierbegleitung
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 293118
Songbook for Male Vocal Ensemble
for: Male choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 649520
Reprint of the Marquerie Frères, Paris, 1838 edition
Dover Vocal Scores
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 314015
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