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.
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 797644
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 797640
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 762055
Voices Rising
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762020
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762014
(Reprise)
from Rent
Broadway Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 761949
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 687442
August/September 2018 Volume 19 No. 1
Student 10-Pak
for: School class
10 journals
Item no.: 681177
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 797634
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 746358
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746354
from Mary Poppins Returns
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745719
Discovery Level 2
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745347
from Beauty and the Beast
Disney Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745119
Traditional Spiritual
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745068
(Crazy Little Thing Called Love with It's Still Rock and Roll to Me)
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745038
Sacred Choral
for: Choir (1–2voices), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 745025
Traditional Spiritual
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 744976
The 2019 Pop Hit
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 697252
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691509
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 691507
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 690709
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 690673
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690640
(Choral Highlights)
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 686935
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 686911
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 686883
(from Aladdin)
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 686870
An arrangement of a beautiful song from Noel Gay’s 1937 musical ‘Me and My Girl’
for mixed chorus (SATB) with full piano accompaniment
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 685327
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 798084
Pop Choral Series
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 798052
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797855
More Songs and Games for the Music Class (Songbook 2)
for: School class
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 806594
Eric Whitacre Concert Band
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1168994
Music Express Books
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 805340
Music Express Books
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 799628
Discovery Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804784
From Walt Disney's »The Lion King«
Discovery Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano, melodic instrument (C)
Choir score, Solo part
Item no.: 469910
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807270
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 806193
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 623588
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534544
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799999
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799223
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 643050
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 491497
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 483334
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 337956