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 (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343049
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), violin, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343420
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343407
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343398
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343392
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343204
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343087
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343074
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343403
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343402
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano, flute; double bass ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1343424
Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1162616
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343084
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343053
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343083
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343042
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343411
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1192417
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343205
Blessed are the merciful
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343429
BB 111a
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1162446
BB 111a
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2–3 parts)
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1343229
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343080
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343381
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343383
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343059
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343415
Maggiore in Bergamo Volume 1: Missarum Liber primus
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1343337
BB 111a
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1162447
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343052
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1353413
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343076
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano, body percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 1343423
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1343418
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1343338
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343070
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano, guitar, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 1343419
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1351720
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343408
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343406
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343047
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343075
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343077
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343413
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1343131
Liturgy
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1109719
Az angyalok éneke
for: Women's choir (SSMMAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1162449
Vertonung des Gebetstextes
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1356488
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