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: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 230350
aus "Andere Kernsprüche" 1652, Nr. 16
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230202
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 230142
Kantate für fünstimmigen Chor, zwei Violinen und Generalbass
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230026
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422251
aus: Sacrae cantiones
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 341898
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 833390
for: Solo voice (high), mixed choir (SSATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1105649
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105647
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 623010
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), organ
Item no.: 134785
Ein frühes geistliches Werk des berühmten Opernkomponisten.
Komplettes Orchestermaterial
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 676668
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 580602
Cantata for New Year's Day; Circumcision of Christ
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 797140
Cantata for New Year
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 797055
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 577549
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418629
erste kritische Edition
Musique sacrée française – Urtext
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 671641
erste kritische Edition
Musique sacrée française – Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671636
Kantate zum 4. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 659828
Quattro pezzi sacri Nr. 2
for: Choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 643283
Liedmotette
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476861
Offertory for the Easter Sunday
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 463876
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 247853
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1032088
Motette
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043931
Chorstimmen
Chorstimmen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 370840
Nach einem Sololied von Franz Schubert
Nach einem Sololied von Franz Schubert
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 332458
Urtext
Das Kuhnau-Projekt
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1639181
Kantate zum Pfingsfest
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1639179
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432665
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432662
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432396
Kantate für für Soli, 4st. Gem. Chor u. Orchester
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 432056
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 169951
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877398
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877371
Chor
CD
for: Choir
Item no.: 876918
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 876725
(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: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1106042
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
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