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), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1340532
for: Solo voice (Mez), mixed choir (SATB), bandoneon, strings, piano
Score
Item no.: 457392
for: Solo voice (Mez), mixed choir (SATB), bandoneon, strings, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 300874
BWV 245
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116685
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1136633
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260582
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score, CD
Item no.: 491884
Novello Handel Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 225360
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 311702
Intercultural Choirbook for female voices
for: Women's choir (2-3 parts) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 776824
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 676251
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 186622
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 301277
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1012535
The Requiem, completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr, in its traditional form
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116413
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 484907
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 694493
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 689641
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 321997
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260778
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697309
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 634744
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 370336
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662983
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 371561
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551928
Für gem Chor (SABar) ud Orgel
Partitur und Orgelstimme separat erhätlich
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 634572
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389057
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 296488
Dramma giocoso in two acts KV 588
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116427
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378814
Arrangement for women's choir
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 605266
Reduced Version
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 174025
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579887
for solos, choir, orchestra and organ
reduction for song and organ by the author
for: 2 soloists (mezzo, baritone), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 147125
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 586545
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 296490
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765579
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 313385
The Requiem, completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr, in its traditional form
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674935
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123406
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671795
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670903
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142055
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 367530
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382592
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205427
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