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.
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392137
Sieben Gedichte nach Federico Garcia Lorca
for: Mixed choir (SATB), guitar
Choir score
Item no.: 428581
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 496059
für Männerchor mit Klavierbegleitung
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 293118
musica baltica
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 632042
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 857996
for Choir and Piano
for: Choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 681826
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 564609
for: Mixed choir; basso continuo ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 303691
Novello Ladies' Barbershop for female chorus a cappella score
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607346
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 495380
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 620066
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 621572
Cantata for the Sunday Septuagesim
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 217133
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 374559
Novello Youth Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 302738
for Choir and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Songbook
Item no.: 681824
Oper in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351745
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 818500
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797793
Book 1: Five Pop Songs for Today's Choirs
for: Mixed choir (SAT), piano
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 563293
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 401792
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (Version in a minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 144612
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 636329
42 Segenslieder für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 620763
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 478096
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365991
Integrity Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 625746
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 408880
VOCES8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1012992
Symphony cantata
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 279250
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185231
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 376624
Old American Songs I
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907629
The 2019 Pop Hit
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 697255
Six Canticles of Creation
John Rutter Anniversary Edition
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 641720
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (1–2 parts), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 601569
für Kinderchor/Frauenchor und Klavier
Aus dem Film "Die Kinder des Mathieu" (Les Choristes)
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 555326
for: Mixed youth choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 486727
for tenor, mixed chorus a cappella
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 775871
Eight songs for four-part vocal groups a capella
A Cappella Songbook 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 672757
King's Singers Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 348962
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124485
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143808
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 262388
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 491348
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