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.
Boosey & Hawkes Choral Treasury
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651355
Neue ökumenische Sonntagslieder
– Chorausgabe –
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1651148
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1650914
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1646601
from To Shiver The Sky (Movement I)
Adaptation from the Writings of Leonardo da Vinci by Chiara Cortez
As featured in Sid Meier's Civilazation VI
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1646489
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646407
Judith Clurman Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1646435
Arrangement for soli, choir (SST(A)TB) and organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SST(A)TB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1646423
(Immer hinein!)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646394
Kammerchor der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
Marten Schuldt-Jensen
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1646420
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646409
WAB 44
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 violins, organ; cello, timpani ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1646421
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646399
for: Male choir (TBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646401
Ein musikalischer Adventskalender
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1646422
Biblische Szenen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1646230
Song cycle
for: Women's choir (3 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646228
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646289
Bosse Hits a cappella (BHAC)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1636260
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1646192
Words inspired by
Traditional Irish and English Blessings
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1646205
An Extinction Elegy
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1645807
for: Children's choir (1-2 parts), piano (keyboard); rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1645714
for: Mixed choir, piano
Klavierauszug, Urtextausgabe, Digitalartikel (AODP)
Item no.: 1650885
G-Dur
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645591
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645594
Es-Dur
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645590
D-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645589
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1645504
Coronation Anthem I
HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1645479
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1645532
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1645530
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1645506
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1645505
Coronation Anthem I
HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645492
Coronation Anthem III
HWV 260
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645524
Coronation Anthem III
HWV 260
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Violin 2, 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645522
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1645512
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1645507
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1645496
Coronation Anthem I HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1645484
Coronation Anthem I
HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1645481
Coronation Anthem I
HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1645477
Coronation Anthem III
HWV 260
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1645515
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645502
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645537
Coronation Anthem I
HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Violin 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645491
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645538
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