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.
GeWV 59
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 200759
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 199313
Threnos in zwei Teilen nach der Orestie des Aischylos
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 199279
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 202506
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202407
for: Choir
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 202263
7. Dreimal rief die Amsel
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Chorstimme
Item no.: 204299
1. Schilflieder
for: Male choir
Chorstimme
Item no.: 204206
5. Dans la maison de doleur
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204177
1. La vraie histoire de douleur "Dedens mon Livre de Pensee"
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204169
Volkslied-Variation "Ich kann nicht sitzen" (Anhalt)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Tenor/Bass
Item no.: 204127
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 204038
"Sabinchen war ein Frauenzimmer"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204034
4. Hochzeit hielt das Mückelein
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203894
1. Mir entfloh die Wachtel
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203890
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203811
5. "Vater, Mutter, eilt herbei - Japo, mamo hote gledet" volkstümlich
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203800
4. Schöner Georg - Lepi Juro
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203798
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203770
2. Das Gleichnis von den törichten und klugen Jungfrauen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203730
1. Das Gleichnis vom Sämann
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203728
op. 39/2
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203660
op. 48
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 201476
Der Ring des Nibelungen - Dritter TagWWV 86 D
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 201080
op. 17
for: Male choir, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 200915
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 196467
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203377
2. Die öffentlichen Verleumder "Ein Ungeziefer ruht in Staub"op. 59
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203330
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203313
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203229
"Da nachts wir uns küssten"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203212
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203141
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203137
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203092
"Nun kumbt hierher all" (aus Ott's Liederbuch)
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202969
2. Alte Weise "Die Sonne steht im Süden"op. 19
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202930
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 202903
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202851
1. Der Held "Den wir zum Schatz erkoren"op. 49
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202783
op. 15
for: Male choir
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 202738
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 202724
Nr. 3 Einst hab ich die Muse gefragt und sie antwortete mir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202703
(S 61-80)
Geistliche Chormusik Heftausgaben
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 193288
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 132377
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 133792
for: Mixed choir, percussion
Item no.: 130311
"Wenn hier nun kahler Boden wär"
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 497408
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