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.
An Opera in three Acts and a Prologue
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 749
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 365371
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 563709
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680065
Discovery Level 2
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777756
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; double bass, percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1343138
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 574884
Choral Nr. 6 und Nr. 10 der Kantate BWV 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo; oboe ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 464812
28 renowned Oratorio Choruses and Choral Works from the 17th to the 20th Centuries
for mixed chorus (SAM) and piano (organ)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 682182
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 681512
VOCES8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1013007
New Gospel Songs and Traditional Spirituals
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 635721
HWV 283
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382958
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 684743
Cantata after Psalm 103
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633906
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore" KV 339
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 375732
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 365427
Schulmusical - Ein spannendes Vergnügen in 4 Liedern mit kurzen Sprecheinlagen für 1-stimmigen Chor (ab 11 Jahren), zwei Sprecher und Klavier - Der Kinderchor Band 10
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 607611
Opéra bouffe en 3 actes et 4 tableaux
3e acte et livrets
Offenbach Edition Keck
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607377
for: Male choir (TBarBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 107215
from "Vesperae solennes de Confessore"
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 117052
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680203
Like as the hart longs / Wie der Hirsch schreit
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235287
Theme from Songs of Sanctuary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 466853
for SATB choir (with soprano solo) and strings or keyboard
New Horizons
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484479
for: Choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 613828
A Music Drama for Voices and Assorted Accompaniments
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 465997
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 681261
Theme From The Bbc Tv Series "The Vicar Of Dibley"
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 455661
for mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214496
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 779404
I hide myself,With a lily, Go, lovely Rose
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 563262
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1670505
Dramma giocoso in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116415
Das Seniorenchorbuch
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; treble recorder ad lib.
Conductor's score
Item no.: 1558725
A fairytale opera in three acts
Reprint of an authoritative German edition
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 177653
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432664
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383672
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for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 212829
Dreistimmige Chorsätze für den Gottesdienst
Chorleiterband
for: Mixed choir (SABar)
Choir book
Item no.: 559860
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
Fassung für Sinfonieorchester (1900)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432762
Operette in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124874
Bärenreiter Urtext-Ausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 425834
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116963
Das Chorbuch für gemischte Stimmen
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 297599
Piano Part for rehearsal purposes only
Durand French Choral Masters
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 765992
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 681190
One Smiling Summer Morning
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907747
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