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.
Bosse Hits a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634539
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185231
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 376624
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
Schulchorbuch für gemischte Stimmen
Chorleiterband
for: Mixed youth choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 486727
Ein Stück Musik nach John Gay's "Beggars Opera"
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124485
für Kinderchor/Frauenchor und Klavier
Aus dem Film "Die Kinder des Mathieu" (Les Choristes)
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 555326
King's Singers Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 348962
The 2019 Pop Hit
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 697255
Six Canticles of Creation
John Rutter Anniversary Edition
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 641720
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 491348
Eight songs for four-part vocal groups a capella
A Cappella Songbook 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 672757
Old American Songs I
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907629
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (1–2 parts), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 601569
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 262388
A Mass for Peace
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143808
for tenor, mixed chorus a cappella
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 775871
Opera in two files, eight pictures and an epilogue
according to the Novelle of the same name by Zofia Posmysz
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 664732
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 685302
op. 89
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1557187
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235743
for mixed chorus and organ score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 292219
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 290002
Five Pop Songs for Today's Choirs
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 691813
für gemischten Chor a cappella (2007)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330775
American Traditional
VOCES 8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 617255
Choral Vivace
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1666818
50 pieces from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Baltic States
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 680587
Jubilate
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232820
18 exercises for mixed chorus (SATB)
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music lesson book
Item no.: 337552
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809322
European choral music of the 19th century
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 669171
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123403
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (1–2 parts), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 601309
Oper in 3 Akten
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198783
The complete songbook
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 488109
Selections for mixed chorus and piano, score (en)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 414564
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 490764
Three sacred songs and fugue
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279260
24 Psalms for the Church's Year
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 471534
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 797759
form "A Garland for the Queen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 474303
Musica baltica
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 641631
SSAATTBB Chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586731
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 361208
from the opera "Der Freischütz"
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 317528
bekannt durch den Film "Sister Act"
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 292001
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