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 ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763517
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763283
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 657146
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 932208
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 931779
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931256
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 847827
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 901330
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 890389
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910840
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948261
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 300994
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 300992
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941723
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942627
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 941079
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939859
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943200
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937879
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936874
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936808
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936708
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936652
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934964
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 934343
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934166
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 618691
for: Male choir
Choir book
Item no.: 161063
BR-CPEB E 4
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 204434
Hinshaw Concert
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602849
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667479
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377018
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375771
"Schön ist's im Winter". Galopp
for: Women's choir (SMezA), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 328344
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196662
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [orchestra]
Organ reduction
Item no.: 620058
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 144974
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204815
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204793
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204791
(Switzerland)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726421
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460520
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 578332
"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden", Str. 9 und 10 (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730071
(Germany)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726412
(Egypt)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726399
Köln 1608 (GL 236 ö)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725749
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