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.
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 946443
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946322
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 946232
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946224
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946176
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946080
Folk aus den USA
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946044
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945987
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945976
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 1677163
Pop Choir Classics
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 634688
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Book
Item no.: 1213370
Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesus Christi nach dem Evangelisten St. Johannem
for: Favorit choir (SATB), mixed choir (SATB)
Score
Item no.: 232142
Oper in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 116306
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905043
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904246
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903898
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903753
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857298
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 851280
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343241
BB 111a
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1162452
(Nagyszalonta)
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822484
Opéra jeune public
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 820187
pour chœurs d'enfants à voix égales (ou soprano), récitant et solistes
Piano et Chant
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 818698
Pour Soprano, Mezzo, Baryton, Voix d'Enfants et Ensemble instrumental
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 818586
"Zögernd leise"
Edition Schott
for: Soloist (alto/baritone), male choir (TTBB) [women's choir (SSAA)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 351245
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 300349
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 819887
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 819036
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 649139
Opéra Biblique en cinq Actes et un Prologue
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 470790
Geistliche Musik
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 818781
Le Pupitre - Heugel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 276438
Fassungen von 1767 und 1803
Haydn Gesamtausgabe XXII, Band 1
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 746298
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 232236
Versions with 4 and 5 acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388580
Volume I
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 832347
Opera in un prologo e due atti da Omero. Libretto dell'Autore
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 390279
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 902223
"Trois Beaux Oiseaux Du Paradis" pour Choeur Mixte
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 868221
Feierliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 971738
WoO V/6
for: Solo voice (alto), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1565822
Dramma giocoso in zwei Akten KV 588
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 688577
Messa a 4 voci con orchestra, SC 6
Klavierauszug XL im lesefreundlichen Großdruck
for: 2 soloists (TBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665320
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 293325
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 175791
The Novello Youth Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 141242
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