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.
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003170
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003135
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003058
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003023
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003012
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002994
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002973
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002929
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002880
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002765
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002727
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002617
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002615
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002585
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002570
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002542
Rehearsal CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1002571
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002458
Brass percussion Parts And Score Cd
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1002245
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002231
Director Manual
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002229
Rehearsal CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1002089
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002020
10 CD'S
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1001988
Rehearsal CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1001932
Gentry Publications
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001854
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1001760
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001601
CD 10 Pak
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1001485
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 168819
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 797725
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797706
Contemporary Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800199
30-Minute Musical Audio Sampler
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798654
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 857833
for: Male choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 372302
für Frauenchor a cappella
Partitur
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1203854
Freudenklänge, Festgesänge
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043018
Arrangement for Soloists, Choir and Chamber Orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 642348
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122948
Studiotrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 824721
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1656806
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126820
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126071
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125101
from Footprints in the Sand
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125068
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125063
from Ceremony of Candles
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124775
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