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.
Messen des Druckes Paris 1577
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 4
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115888
7 Kompositionen aus wiedergefundenen Drucken 1559-1588
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 1
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115886
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 1 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 115782
Liedsatz aus "Das Graduallied"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115779
Italienische Madrigale mit fünf Stimmen
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 5 - Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 115716
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 3
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115714
Italienisches Madrigal Nr. 11
for: Choir
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115662
Ein Stück mit Musik, Pantomime und Akrobatik (Schulmusical)
for: Children's choir, instruments
Songbook, CD
Item no.: 377032
aus der neuen Gesamtausgabe
WWV 111
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 445043
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 375215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 375212
Me compare Giacometo
Venezianisches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 378291
Da rocken ja die Hühner
Musical ab 8 Jahren mit kuriosen Gestalten und überraschenden Wendungen
for: Voices, narrator, children's choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 378163
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 377709
Für Soli, 8-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orchester
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 377598
Das Kindermusical
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Audio-CD
Item no.: 341034
nach Henry Purcell's "Trumpet Voluntary"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Organ score
Item no.: 339696
for: Male choir
Item no.: 339663
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 339279
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 478189
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 455855
Mapa Mundi
Italian Church Music 8
for: Mixed choir (40 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 442856
for: Male choir
Choir book
Item no.: 340381
for: Male choir
Item no.: 337523
for: Male choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 337094
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 337741
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 337666
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 466336
Cantate Domino
Kirchenmusik aus alter und neuer Zeit
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 342364
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 342143
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 565967
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 374056
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 373867
für gem Chor a cappella (Klavier ad lib)
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 373321
Volkslieder im Swing-Rhythmus
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 373254
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSA), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 428447
A Disney Celebration for Women's Voices (Medley)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470161
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 372206
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 478843
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 493889
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 493467
for: Children's choir
Chorheft
Item no.: 487567
Der Welterfolg vom Hazy-Osterwald-Sextett
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 488080
Early English Church Music 48
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 552449
Drama für Musik in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 100702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101768
Oper in drei Akten
Band 8,1 (kritischer Bericht) (Critical Report)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101756
Zwischenspiel, 2. Akt, Text zum 3. Akt
Arnold Schönberg – Sämtliche Werke 8,2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101755
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