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 (SATB), brass quintet
Set of parts
Item no.: 1556836
B-Dur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1105761
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1071716
aus: Missa in f
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1115096
Verbum supernum
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1121013
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 314175
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985287
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985278
Walton Choral
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 985032
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985702
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985698
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985677
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985667
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985356
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985126
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985010
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984973
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984951
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984815
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984786
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984749
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 985657
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985466
Walton Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985428
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985251
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Choir score
Item no.: 985226
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985182
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 985166
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984969
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 493195
from Elijah
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806276
aus dem Oratorium "Der Messias" (1741)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1552415
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804458
Jazz Chorals
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 803067
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802881
Contemporary Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811843
Contemporary Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808745
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799206
Contemporary Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 281841
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022911
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017365
Festival Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802866
Broadway Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022907
(from The Pajama Game)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019399
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815231
from Hairspray
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813758
Broadway Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809541
(ShowTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808859
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