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.
Dialogo a 6 voci
(1683)
for: 6 soloists (SSSATB), mixed choir (SSSATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1559340
Oper in 3 Akten und einem Epilog
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1552987
for: Soloist, women's choir (SSA), piano, latin percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1552979
„Lasset uns den Herren preisen“
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1552045
Advent IV
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1550027
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549892
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1545736
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1566566
Dritte Stufe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1356800
Hommage a Leos Janá?ek
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 1544909
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1544835
Légende lyrique en quatre Actes
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 1544773
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1544716
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1351411
Pew Edition with Cross and Flame
for: Choir
Item no.: 1346008
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1345585
Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 1356630
14. Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro
for: Mixed choir (SATTB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1204103
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1345507
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1345479
Weltlich
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1343597
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539528
S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1618573
for unaccompanied mixed choir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 1587215
gemischter Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 1610997
Das Seniorenchorbuch
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; treble recorder ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1558723
Das Seniorenchorbuch
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; treble recorder ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1558705
für gem Chor und Orgel
Bc/Kb
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1556912
BriLee Music
The voice of Choral Music
for: Male choir (TB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1556552
Geistliches Oratorium in drei Abteilungenop. 66
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1556305
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1199718
Kleine Nonsens-Kantate auf Schriftproben der Schriftgießerei Weber (Stuttgart o.J.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1200232
nach Texten der Offenbarung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1200211
aus dem Geistlichen Gesanbüchlein (Worms 1525)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1199400
aus dem Geistlichen Gesanbüchlein (Worms 1525)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1199399
aus dem Geistlichen Gesangbüchlein (Worms 1525)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1199368
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148392
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1149072
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148889
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759460
Text und Melodie aus Nürnberg (um 1542)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756129
Deutsches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753952
Text trad. (18. Jh.) / Melodie trad. (um 1815)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734216
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732268
Deutsches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730966
Deutsches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730963
from Cuba
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728169
Text und Melodie trad. (15. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726325
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