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: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Organ reduction
Item no.: 332489
Erinnerung – Traumzeit
aus dem Musical 'Cats'
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 227032
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1169255
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 655514
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 673060
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906928
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 683942
Theme from "The Snowman"
for female chorus (SA) and piano
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 622497
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands; handbells, timpani, latin percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 768062
Shadow Water Music
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 660314
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 329945
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534505
From: Pocahontas
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 660978
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 192158
Chamber Version
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 612466
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931423
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916458
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914706
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Tenor
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 560053
Oratorio in 3 Parts for Soloists (SATB), Choir and Orchestra (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379050
Cantata for speakers, soli (ST), chorus (SATB), timpani organ and strings
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), narrator, strings, timpani, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 121014
Abridged Concert Edition – gekürzte Ausgabe
Weltliches Oratorium HWV 58
Special Order Edition
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302988
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1101068
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 983114
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 347176
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1643198
Singspiel for narrator, actors (ad lib.), children's choir and concert band
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Partitur, Leihmaterial
Item no.: 863618
Gesänge zur Firmung
for: Choir (1-4 voices); piano ad lib.
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 631931
Purcell Society Volume 24
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 194431
Complete Edition with critical report, clothbound, Band 9
joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest
for: Choir
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1012822
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 655513
23 Begleitsätze zum neuen Beiheft zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) / brass ensemble]
Score
Item no.: 673506
for eight-part chamber choir
nyolcszólamú kamarakórusra
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822590
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123279
from Sister Act 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 294634
Choral Suite
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1212173
A cappella Motette für gemischten Chor (SSAATB) aus "The Peacemakers"
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 655015
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557018
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1026876
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 696763
The complete singing resource for primary schools
for: Children's choir
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1633299
Alfred Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 566081
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321931
Chorlied
bearbeitet für gemischten Chor, zwei Violinen und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 321613
Das Männerchor-Buch für die Westentasche (TTBB)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 670820
for mixed chorus and piano,
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 136131
for mixed chorus (SATB) and instruments
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Score
Item no.: 362249
O singet unserm Gott ein neues Lied
Cannons Anthem (Second verison) – HWV 249b
for: Solo voice (soprano/alto), women's choir (SSA), oboe, 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 550644
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