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
Choir score
Item no.: 387359
for: Male choir
Item no.: 387064
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388170
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388103
für 5-stimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 386682
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 386655
Sainte Cécile
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 673259
für Oberstimme (Solostimme oder mehrere Stimmen) und Chor
auf Texte von F.J. Stritt
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 746209
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386571
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931321
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1032016
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 477457
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 457018
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1613340
aus: Italienische Madrigale
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1587023
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1587006
Der 84. Psalm
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586991
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586988
Der Herr ward gehorsam bis zum Tode
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586941
Introitus für das Trinitatisfest
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586934
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586829
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586823
Der gute Hirte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1586821
Psalm 13
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586776
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586775
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586761
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586753
Kleine Variationen über optimistische Aphorismen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586740
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1655410
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1654284
Kleine Credomesse
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1676904
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1666794
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586594
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586580
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586541
Antiphon
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586438
Graduale am Gründonnerstag
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586425
Kronstorfer Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586421
Kantate für Kinder
for: children's choir, small ensemble
Single part Flute
Item no.: 374126
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 347303
Version fo choir of equal voices and instruments
Musique sacrée française
for: Women's choir (1 part), chamber ensemble
Single parts (cello 1-2, double bass)
Item no.: 687457
Choralkantate
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235752
in G-Dur
TVWV 9:18
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 [Oboe 1] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234579
16 Motets
Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: Women's choir (SA) [mixed choir (SAB)], basso continuo; string instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Single part Viola
Item no.: 234515
16 Motets
Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: Women's choir (SA) [mixed choir (SAB)], basso continuo; string instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 234508
BuxWV 77
Einzelstimme Vl. 2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234399
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 236278
ZWV 13
Einzelstimme Kb.
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236962
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