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 a cappella
Item no.: 577108
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 604243
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 152330
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 144831
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742456
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843821
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126420
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125746
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124273
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1123999
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843548
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843520
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845852
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844925
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 844591
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 139624
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936667
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936457
A Christmas Musical for Children
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 849978
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 464218
Sound Of Norway
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 344357
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932385
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932350
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907198
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 388212
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388165
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1178770
for: Women's choir [children's choir], piano
Partitur
Item no.: 619094
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Flute (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445258
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445096
Mitternachtsmesse zu Weihnachten
Urtext-Ausgabe – Musique sacrée française
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678034
Mitternachtsmesse zu Weihnachten
Urtext-Ausgabe – Musique sacrée française
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678029
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825497
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123521
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122364
Heft 2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 244616
für SATB, Orchester (Fl, 2 Klar [B], 2 Hr [G], 2 Trp [B], Pk, Streicher) und Orgel oder mit Orgel
allein
enthält beide Fassungen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Single part Organ
Item no.: 311061
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308910
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violino piccolo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762465
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 801890
Choral
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 807737
5. Der verschwundene Stern "Es stand ein Sternlein" / 6. Wacht auf, ihr schönen Vögelein
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747060
Potpourri beschwingter Weihnachtslieder für gemischten Chor und Klavier (mit dt. Text) oder zus. mit Gitarre, Bass, Schlagzeug
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 772303
nach dem berühmten "Vesperchor"
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1161803
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 146210
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 456531
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 565968
with Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms!
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824295
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