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.
Folk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 690143
from the Musical "The Wiz"
SoundTrax CD – Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762783
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 762722
An Easter Cantata
Instrumental Score & Parts on CD-ROM
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD-ROM
Item no.: 762534
Alfred Choral Designs
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762180
from Missa Sancti Hieronymi, MH 254
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745889
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 766269
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 766161
from the motion picture Camp
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 766078
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 766050
A Choral Medley
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 765774
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 765769
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 765741
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 765721
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764438
A Medley from the Broadway Musical
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 764431
Alfred Pop Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764318
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764227
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 764032
SoundTrax CD
An American Medley
for: Choir
Play-along CD 1
Item no.: 696507
Folk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 764011
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763999
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 763977
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763950
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763926
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763884
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763845
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763813
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 763805
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763341
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763319
Alfred Choral Design
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763292
Alfred Choral Design
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763272
A December Wish
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 763268
Alfred Choral Design
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763252
Alfred Choral Design
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763250
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763241
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 485514
Alfred Pop Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 468877
Choral Basics
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 461588
for soprano, mixed chorus, instrumental ensemble and pre-recorded tape
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 401884
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388101
für 3 Frauen- oder Männerstimmen
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Score
Item no.: 386012
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 460145
für 3 Violinen, Bass, gemischten Chor und Orgel (Oboe ad lib.)
for: Choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 387491
A Chinese Fable in 2 Acts after Carlo Gozzi
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1681457
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609180
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