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.
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 1005878
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 1005741
Cantata for Palm Sunday and the feast of the Annunciation Cantata for Palm Sunday and the feast of the Annunciation
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 696896
Warburton E 14
Responsorium. Mailänder Vesperpsalm
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 693162
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 683898
Kantate zum Sonntag nach Neujahr
Einzelstimme, Generalbass
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 681099
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680659
Kantate zur Trauung
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 661356
C-Dur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1161198
H 395
for: Mixed choir (SSB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1136489
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1109055
für Chor a cappella mit singbarem deutschem Text
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105672
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Choir score
Item no.: 1105651
Sinfonische Kantate I
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 688780
für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Kontrabass
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675370
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1108905
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608804
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608289
Repertoire Explorer
for: Male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344533
Intermedium in 3 Akten
Lateinische Komödie
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1340748
Dramatic Poem after Ossian Op. 12
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1340703
Siegesgesang der Griechen
for: 4 soloists (TTBB), male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1344526
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1344426
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 1557698
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 1005584
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1136805
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901001
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609183
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609146
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609139
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609108
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609093
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609057
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609055
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609045
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609034
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608944
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608942
Polka
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 662616
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1610262
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609666
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609664
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609652
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609650
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609634
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609630
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609608
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115065
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