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.
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Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777528
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 777476
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 768042
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121526
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923870
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110951
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110904
Acclamation from Gospel Mass
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811253
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1552551
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814096
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 658262
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804217
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 431933
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534438
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167410
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816701
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126792
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126064
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125772
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125474
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125401
Shawnee Sacred
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125249
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125092
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124834
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124454
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124058
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123912
Choral
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123518
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122256
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 827030
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 826531
With Open Our Eyes, Lord
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824867
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126774
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126667
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126600
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126415
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126303
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126224
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126160
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126116
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125875
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125849
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125534
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125310
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125216
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125186
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124735
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124641
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