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.
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122364
Heft 2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 244616
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
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 555859
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1023363
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1023355
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810739
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807964
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804164
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811323
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Oboe
Item no.: 291202
From Joy To The World
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 999551
Cantata for Christmas Day
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1543986
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552090
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 797078
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 362091
ZWV 107
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 685603
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951420
Weihnachts-Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets, strings, timpani, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1160933
aus Lieder mit Worten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 580618
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609914
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003050
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001974
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984809
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985306
Heftausgabe
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 283461
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385524
für Sprecher, Soli, gemischten Chor, kleines Orchester und Orgel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308178
A Christmas Story
for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 354649
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309680
Pastorella
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 309579
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003288
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022373
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811722
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810367
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809503
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807419
Integrity Choral
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1330774
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