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.: 364016
Weihnachtshymne
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 327061
aus: Vier Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 290981
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235662
Kantate für 4 Solisten, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 624276
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
mit Kopierrecht
Item no.: 472370
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
mit Kopierrecht
Item no.: 472369
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass winds
Piano reduction
Item no.: 226892
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 367010
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 139414
Europaeische Musik Deutschland Coburg
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 442472
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 458651
Galopp
für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 242758
Christmas (Or Epiphany) Anthem for SATB Voices and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1627477
For S.A.B., With Piano and Optional Percussion (Xylophone, Bells, Timpani)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625641
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 796827
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609547
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663532
Missa in Honorem Nativitatis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 365819
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845852
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 849978
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936457
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907198
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910132
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932385
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932350
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936667
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946851
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843821
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843548
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843520
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 841926
Offertorium pro Nativitate Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [strings, organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 175507
aus einem alten schlesischen Krippenspiel
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309495
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309404
Kirchenliedsaetze
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309136
Part. gem. Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 171937
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 768417
Epistelmotette zum 1. Weihnachtstag
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115414
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115413
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 158231
für zwei- und mehrstimmigen Gesang eingerichtet und mit Instrumentalbegleitung versehen
Volksmusik aus der Steiermark, Band 20
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 158140
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 187742
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844925
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 844591
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1178770
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762599
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762528
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