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.
C-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642673
Schulchorbuch für gleiche Stimmen
Musizierband, Stimmenset
for: Youth choir, piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 681217
"Sparrow Mass"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 341294
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 578309
Choralmotette und frühe motettische Werke ( Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ / Gloria-Fuge [SAT] / Ave Maria zart )
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 395318
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315781
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315778
with Climb Every Mountain
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121290
(StudioTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1656628
Bogoroditse Dyevo
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314091
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125719
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124712
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124084
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905674
Harmonia-Gospel Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904575
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904532
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904487
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904292
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 332323
Mixed Choir with Organ and B.C.
for: Mixed choir, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 331007
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105604
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1634169
Contes D'Hoffmann
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299589
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917072
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915483
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTB), organ
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907839
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 186461
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931183
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931177
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931174
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925958
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 924057
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 923794
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 923672
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923626
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916768
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916293
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 915839
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914535
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912936
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912834
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912694
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912526
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910663
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910625
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 910384
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910179
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