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.: 1155246
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 801729
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019074
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808184
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805404
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806022
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1192860
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1641218
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814029
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813600
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809286
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532522
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 797704
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798952
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1152603
for: Choir
Item no.: 884095
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625514
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 483666
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764113
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317269
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097230
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100716
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324723
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1086274
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153604
Christmas Choruses and Solos
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1115983
Orgelfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 499749
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960420
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324699
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117121
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125769
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097489
GIA Christmas
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149824
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125040
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1151525
String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1155144
Christmas Choruses and Solos
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115638
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325524
Heft 4 aus «Musik aus der Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn»
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 687305
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1652001
Weihnachtslied
for: Women's choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 646626
Christmas Song of Peace, Christmas Night
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151986
Weihnachten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115119
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