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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691661
for mixed chorus and organ
from Lyra Davidica
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 684322
for mixed chorus a cappella
from the Album "In Winter" (Katie Melua with the Gori Women's Choir)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 671422
for SATB and piano or small orchestra
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 660865
Anthems
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 637085
Discovery Level 2
Discovery Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777989
from Frozen II
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777781
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 647541
Choral Vivace
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 635223
for female choir and water-tuned glasses
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA), glass harmonica
Choir score
Item no.: 634637
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 630187
opera in two acts op. 88
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 120641
An American Medley
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano [youth concert band/ brass ensemble/ string ensemble]
Choir score
Item no.: 696505
for Mixed Choir (SSABar) and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 679695
for Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 679687
for two-part Choir and Piano – Words based on a Traditional Nursery Rhyme
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679684
for two-part Mixed Choir and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679654
Traditional Spiritual
Lawson-Gould
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678461
Alfred Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678442
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678370
from "Like Dust I Rise"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678356
Alfred Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 660285
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 692764
(with "In the Bleak Midwinter")
Based on a melody by Thomas Tallis
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 691857
Ballads
Neue Chorarrangements für drei gemischte Stimmen
mit leicht spielbarer Klavierbegleitung
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 431571
Choral Suite
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 340008
(A Little Singing)
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768864
With "America, the Beautiful"
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745796
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano; tubular bells, hand drum, triangle ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745795
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745736
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745734
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745693
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745683
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745680
from the musical "Kinky Boots"
Alfred Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746362
Love Theme from "A Star Is Born"
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746317
from "Smash"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746259
Pop Choral Series
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746181
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746122
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745966
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano; saxophone, vibraphone ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745935
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano; trumpet, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745900
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745888
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano; flute, percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745877
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905029
Celebrating 100 Years of Disney Magic.
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 444046
from Mary Poppins
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 347023
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 297950
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