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 (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959678
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959624
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912968
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912185
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909971
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905570
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342133
Kantate für Sopran-, Alt- und Bass-Solo, Chor, Streichorchester und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1346507
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1200572
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1194038
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1193417
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1193363
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142738
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1136771
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334223
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 583324
Kindermusical
for: Children's choir, melody instrument (C/B-flat), piano, double bass; percussion ad lib.
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 495836
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 484573
Early Music Library 18
for: Choir (8 voices); 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
2 Scores
Item no.: 223685
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 160613
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 637676
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1592547
Eine Kantate über die Schöpfung, Aggregatzustände und das Mysterium der Trinität
Für Kinder von 6–15 Jahren
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), narrator, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1632406
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1659051
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1658448
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Trombone 1
Item no.: 1657361
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1654966
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1645532
Graduale pro omne tempore
C-Dur Hob. XXIIIa C15
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Trumpets, timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1665001
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 370078
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 634516
Nr. 3 aus: Drei Marianische Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644087
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester (1692)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 641952
Kleine Orgelsolomesse in B
Hob. XXII:7
zusätzliche Trompetenstimmen von Michael Haydn
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Trumpet 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 641585
aus: Seebilder
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 641541
aus: Aus Westfalen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 641511
aus: Tres Ciudades. Three poems by Federico García Lorca
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 638212
aus: Symphoniae Sacrae I
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 638199
We Are Walking
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556229
with Addams Groove
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814570
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813899
from The Phantom of the Opera
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813629
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 815575
Discovery Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812770
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811729
Discovery Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805024
Women's
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1022442
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