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), piano
Score
Item no.: 808826
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808668
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 808563
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 808498
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810323
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810254
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 810133
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813956
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 813955
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813802
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 809308
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638629
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638589
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534586
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633949
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1633252
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 1633236
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566935
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566855
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566842
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566826
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1562545
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562030
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562029
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 414530
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 151261
from: Psalms of David SWV 32, 1619
Scripture: Ps 136
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), double bass, organ; chapell choir 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231730
Chorale cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 235788
When Israel came from Egypt's land
MWV A 17
for: Women's choir (SSAA) [male choir (ttbb)], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 235335
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234586
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234061
D major
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 226342
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 634667
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 133677
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862733
for female chorus and piano (organ)
Texts by Nick Fawcett
Volume 2
for: Women's choir (SA), piano [organ]
Piano score
Item no.: 376641
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962240
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962163
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962159
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962142
For children's chorus (even voices) or soprano, narrator and soloists
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Piano reduction
Item no.: 818400
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Piano reduction
Item no.: 645825
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1329214
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004509
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 319620
for: Mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, organ, small orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 684365
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 661155
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 687046
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