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.
(Joh. 7,6)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 876387
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 876331
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 875558
"Immer lustig, fesch und munter" (Marsch)
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 1111970
Walzer "Frau Sonne lacht zum Fenster hell herein"op. 354
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 1111896
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105635
Op. 93a Nr. 6 Beherzigung
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043883
op. 49
for: Choir, orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 365456
für gemischten Chor oder Männerchor a cappella
for: Mixed choir [male choir]
Choir score
Item no.: 381194
für gemischten Chor oder Männerchor a cappella
for: Mixed choir [male choir]
Choir score
Item no.: 381191
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 381190
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 380941
"Harmony Mass"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 692996
"Prager" Te Deum
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 691701
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 880121
Zwei Chorlieder aus dem schlesischen Zyklus "Stimme der Heimat" (1942) ("Goldner Laut / Wenn im Feld dem roten Mohne")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 879622
Klassik
for: Choir
Item no.: 879353
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 879222
Frauenchor
Chorpartitur
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 879057
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878993
A Civil War Ballad
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878971
Epistelmotette zum Sonntag Quasimodogeniti
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 878797
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 870961
Motette
Psalm 131 aus "Kleiner Psalter" (1950)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869817
Epistelmotette zum Sonntag Exaudi
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869758
Adventsmotette für drei- und vierstimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella
musica sacra nova
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 869715
(A Jubilant Gloria)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 869713
Epistel-Motette zum Sonntag Sexagesimae
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869081
Bärenreiter-Chorblätter 148
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 868822
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 868475
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 868013
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 885426
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 884961
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 884694
Frauenchor
Chorpartitur
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 884575
Done Made My Vow
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 883774
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 883521
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 864526
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 864476
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 864287
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 864256
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898964
Chor
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 898812
Ave Maria
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898077
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898018
No. 5 Annabel Lee
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897939
Lied und Finale (2. Akt) aus "Die Fledermaus"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 457402
Welsh
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950621
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