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.
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 178006
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 171261
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 146944
WAB 28
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 467946
5 Madrigale nach alten Texten - für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 379618
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 379358
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690100
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690086
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690085
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689757
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689701
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689697
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689421
Choral Highlights
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
Play-along CD 1
Item no.: 744842
Listen! – Swahili/ SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762188
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689366
für 5-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 562708
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 383940
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 381199
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 381708
Oratorium für drei Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Edition Peters Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 482965
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 584861
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 584844
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847574
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 847088
Alfred Choral Design
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
CD
Item no.: 847036
Alfred Choral Design
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 847022
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 846903
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844081
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844080
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843981
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843899
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843895
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843723
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846588
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846533
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846461
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846135
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845859
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845103
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845074
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 845061
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845038
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845036
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844889
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844733
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845271
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 623263
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