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.
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 646749
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 644713
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 647568
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 645135
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321698
for mixed chorus and organ
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 368514
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 911637
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 894742
From: 'Behold The Hour Cometh'
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1031843
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862311
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867227
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867193
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 867137
Feierliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866391
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866277
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 866163
Feierliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865211
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Score
Item no.: 886656
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 869851
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 886206
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 883020
for: 4 voices (SSTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 880774
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 645699
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1582827
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 444001
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 443984
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002517
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001895
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001720
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001649
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001616
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 697271
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813096
from Moana
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534259
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800181
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799831
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807730
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124851
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110330
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809837
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814283
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806437
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805262
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804578
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814026
2-Part and Piano
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812747
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812410
2-Part and Piano
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809143
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