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: 2 soloists (SBar), narrator, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 113087
for: Mixed youth choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 486727
King's Singers Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 348962
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124485
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 816845
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 262388
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 771423
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476962
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 775871
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 491348
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 467073
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 641720
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 374733
Ricordi Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389027
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 767765
8 songs for upper voices
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 692550
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 555326
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 149012
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143808
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 376624
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 166090
The 2019 Pop Hit
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 697255
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
VOCES8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697259
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [women's choir (SSA)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 428797
für Frauenchor und Klavier
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471993
Choral Vivace
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1666818
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 388444
for unaccompanied chorus SSAATBB
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 635762
(Choral Selections)
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777418
op. 89
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1557187
für gemischten Chor a cappella (2007)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330775
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235743
Musica baltica
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 635515
Third Parable for Church Performance op. 81
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 120759
Opera in two files, eight pictures and an epilogue
according to the Novelle of the same name by Zofia Posmysz
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 664732
American Traditional
VOCES 8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 617255
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 235861
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 679019
Jubilate
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232820
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318161
This song beautifully depicts the image of a kite flying high in the air,
implying a child's imaginative wishes and dreams.
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 485146
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1192485
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 685302
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484992
European choral music of the 19th century
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 669171
"Actus tragicus"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 167439
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