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.
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904411
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913630
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824546
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904198
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825094
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100610
Christmas Song of Peace, Christmas Night
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151986
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1039294
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914121
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110244
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124261
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126312
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912431
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325530
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124029
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125790
No. 3 An Old Man He Courted Me
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077161
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865165
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915513
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124040
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101516
Klassik
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 872905
Harold Flammer WorshipSongs Jr
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123687
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912301
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124148
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1038200
(New Edition)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823089
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117376
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908871
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1053331
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126627
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117333
Psalm 23
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151665
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125814
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923749
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925975
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931881
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111128
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 860955
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101226
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904090
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825657
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924002
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342976
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910261
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915736
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329030
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