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.
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809253
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808623
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808525
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808212
Puer natus in Bethlehem
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 807804
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807116
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806644
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806142
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805304
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804749
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803804
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802839
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808958
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609552
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609550
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608989
Weihnachtskantate
for: Choir (2 voices), 2 recorders, piano [harpsichord, organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 677280
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609953
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609934
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609913
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801303
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167447
from White Christmas
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800556
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811952
Weihnachtsmotette über „Vom Himmel Hoch“ für Chor SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663019
Singer´s Edition
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1001956
für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 157860
Kleine Adventskantate für gemischten Chor und Instrumente
dient auch als Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments [organ]
Score
Item no.: 173234
Heft 1
Europäische Folklore in offenen Besetzungen
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 171680
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459734
Motette auf die Weihnacht
aus "Geistliche Chormusik" op. 12 (1934-1941)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114788
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 115685
Uns ist ein Kind geboren
zum 1. Weihnachtsfesttag
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 191911
Spanish Christmas Carol
for: Choir (2 parts); percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 774901
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169575
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813997
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 888067
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891118
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167300
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862974
Weihnachtskantate
for: 2 voices (SS) [female choir (SS)/mixed choir (SSB)], 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 692762
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256596
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 805611
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462412
(For unto us a child is born)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471214
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460520
für 6-stimmigen Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 381401
Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 181393
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