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.
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815380
Level 2 Mixed, Student 1-Pak
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 813990
Music First Express
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813782
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809427
Book 1, Student 1-Pak
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 808371
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807552
Psalm 96,1-2
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751947
Kantate zum Sonntag Oculi HoWV II.57
for: 3 soloists (STB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 772208
Cantiones Sacrae – No. 26, 27, 28 (SWV 78, 79, 80)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1161086
aus: Cantiones sacrae
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1136692
Dostoino jest
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105666
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1136561
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1136556
aus: Messe breve
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136409
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043335
f-Moll
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1105794
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1161129
Ausschnitte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1161127
Hymnus pro tempore Passionis Domini
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1161121
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1161112
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160622
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231835
Musikalische Exequien III SWV 281
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 8 instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 231794
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 768590
"Choral Fantasy"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano, orchestra
Piano (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762149
Oratorio "Christus am Ölberge"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 694220
for: Choir (S/SA/SAM), piano; wind instruments, rhythm-group ad lib.
Single part drumset
Item no.: 693501
for: Male choir
Item no.: 372346
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 311380
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 306952
Choral aus der Kantate Nr.147 BWV147
für gem Chor und Orgel Streicherset (3-2-1-1-1)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 660842
für Gemeinde, Vorsänger, gemischten Chor, Jazztrio und Orgel (oder Bläser)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, organ [wind ensemble], rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums)
Single part bass
Item no.: 660383
Walzer "Allüb'rall in Österreich tönt der Sang"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 782612
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825218
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824678
für Frauenchor (1-2 Soprane) und Klavier Partitur (dt/en)
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
CHP
Item no.: 630332
Psalm 50 für Soli, Männerchor und Orchester
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: 3 soloists (TTB), male choir (TTB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 672425
Kantate zum 4. Advent HoWV II.7
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 772577
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 577553
nach Gedichten von J. W. v. Goethe
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 577552
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261787
Cantata for the 4th Sunday in Advent.
Reconstruction Uwe Wolf
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 557992
Kantate zum 9. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233478
Kantate zum Sonntag Misericordias Domini
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 233369
Kantate zum 16. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ solo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 232873
Offertorium
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Viola
Item no.: 232379
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; trombone, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1105880
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; trombone, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1105877
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