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: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 866908
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 864704
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 864685
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877978
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679406
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 669230
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 561780
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460543
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 283409
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 282370
für gem Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 604174
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116959
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 229115
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 229110
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 228711
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 226910
for: Choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 226806
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 225156
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 224352
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 223566
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 279222
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 277229
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 275819
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 274707
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 273785
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 271125
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 178273
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 178174
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 174205
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 170885
for: Mixed choir (SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 170316
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 169053
for: Women's choir (SAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 162414
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 191064
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 190054
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 189914
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 296123
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 295319
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 291925
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 207672
for: children's choir, small ensemble
Score
Item no.: 205968
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 204676
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella; organ [2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 202592
for: Narrator, 3 violins, cello; children's choir ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 200023
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 213123
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 212552
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 212324
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 209171
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