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.
aus: Zum Erntedank. Liturgische Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1336713
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 137615
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387763
for: Male choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134112
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 336808
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 335340
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 335327
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 284195
'Lutheran Mass'
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, bassoon, violone [double bass] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430736
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 430554
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 475827
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor; the parish, orchestra, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1043624
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097161
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096891
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095757
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142737
Choral–Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1161907
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 1160881
Ode to St Cecilia
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1340594
New Completion
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1340585
Ferrara 1595
New Gesualdo Edition 3
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1316940
10 alte Kinderreime
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 755310
auf Gedichte von Georg Trakl
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 133695
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 868798
op. 6
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Chorstimme
Item no.: 1544805
Cantata for Easter
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1692303
Text von Bärbel Fricke
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 123186
Walzer nach Hugo Durst
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 122492
for: Mixed choir (4 voices), orchestra
Item no.: 122478
Heidelberger Chorblätter Nr. 68
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 121982
Singspiel
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 231273
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231230
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230248
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Bassoon (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230105
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 229840
Cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Trinity/all occasions
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB) [SB/TB/SATB], mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 232854
Cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Trinity/all occasions
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB) [SB/TB/SATB], mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232841
Cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben · Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 232834
(with Shout to the North)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 645892
Accompaniment Tracks
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123202
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824673
Choralkantate I
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 232417
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123465
Listening CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124330
Als Fell der Geiferer
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308843
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308654
Drei Studentenlieder 2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308627
aus dem Bühnenweihfestspiel "Parsifal"
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 308438
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