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.
Volkslied aus dem Böhmerwald
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192607
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 583324
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 370078
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 634516
12 Lieder für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 617506
for: Male choir
Item no.: 372346
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 311380
für Soli, Chor, Orchester und Orgel
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 308302
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 306952
Choral aus der Kantate Nr.147 BWV147
für gem Chor und Orgel Streicherset (3-2-1-1-1)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 660842
für Gemeinde, Vorsänger, gemischten Chor, Jazztrio und Orgel (oder Bläser)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, organ [wind ensemble], rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums)
Single part bass
Item no.: 660383
Walzer "Allüb'rall in Österreich tönt der Sang"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 782612
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825218
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824678
für Frauenchor (1-2 Soprane) und Klavier Partitur (dt/en)
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
CHP
Item no.: 630332
"Ihr Mörser, erknallet" (Tirol)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746837
(Nürnberg 1613 und Laaff)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746836
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 549493
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 477457
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 472894
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 457018
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 776942
Kantate für Kinder
Der Kinderchor
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189005
Kantate für Kinder
Der Kinderchor
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189004
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 173069
Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 673156
Evangelien-Rockmotette (Latin) zur Konfirmation
Motette Nr. 1 aus "Sieben Rockmotetten nach den Evangelien"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Set of parts
Item no.: 673112
Evangelien-Rockmotette (Shuffle) zum Erntedankfest
Motette Nr. 3 aus "Sieben Rockmotetten nach den Evangelien"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Set of parts
Item no.: 673106
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671627
für Kinderchor, gemischten Chor und Basso continuo (Instrumente ad libitum)
Urtext
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SSSS), mixed choir (ATTB), basso continuo; mixed choir (SATB), melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Part 1
Item no.: 670899
op. 54 (1871)
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 668507
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231835
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 231794
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 768590
"Choral Fantasy"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano, orchestra
Piano (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762149
Oratorio "Christus am Ölberge"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 694220
for: Choir (S/SA/SAM), piano; wind instruments, rhythm-group ad lib.
Single part drumset
Item no.: 693501
Alfred Choral Design
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
CD
Item no.: 847033
Alfred Choral Design
for: Choir
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 846981
Alfred Choral Design
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
CD
Item no.: 846951
From Next to Normal
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 846932
Alfred Today's Pop
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 846929
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 846926
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 846910
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 846831
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 848451
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846650
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846454
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