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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124825
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 855126
Aufführungstechnische Grundlagen von 370 Chorwerken
4. Auflage
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 695145
The Childrens Carol
for: Choir (1–2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1136600
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 887974
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 910093
O Rex Gloriae
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038754
Ave Maria
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037830
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 983188
SATB w/opt. 3-5 oct. Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919570
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041740
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982945
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1094691
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122980
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038150
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951003
TALLEY
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152275
Year A, Revised Grail Lectionary Psalms 2010
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1151604
String Quintet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Bass
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1155219
Melody Part
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 834486
Klassik
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 884925
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950085
Full Score of SATB Version
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 898565
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855667
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121120
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1156112
Dale Warland Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815832
Rhythm Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 859228
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 859624
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924920
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904470
Two Part Chorus and Piano (Sa, Tb, Sb, Or Satb)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625678
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1093718
Brass & Percussion Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 856013
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126652
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 902591
Klassik
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 879930
SATB & Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855444
LXVI. Psalm
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 851063
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 855288
Dialektfassung
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 242380
Mini-Musical zur Schuleinführung in der Sekundarstufe
für Darsteller, Kinderchor und Klavier
for: Narrator, youth choir (one voice), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1660510
Heilig, heilig, dreimal heilig
(Instrumente ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAM), the parish, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 690120
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 857064
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani, French horn, Tuba, Full Score
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1158819
Flute, Oboe, Cello, Harp
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1157578
Folk aus England
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866784
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 892698
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