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.
Judith Clurman Rejoice: Honoring the Jewish Spirit Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815854
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1530463
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169417
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856122
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126746
Edizione critica a cura di Claudio Toscani
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1547784
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041705
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900082
C Instrument
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154718
for Dantes Divina Commedia
for: Women's choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 749207
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1041668
Percussion part
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855611
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 877977
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158517
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 822789
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157150
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914330
Könyörögjek-é
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822716
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037331
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 870788
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 910829
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154814
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915796
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857072
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125882
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 908966
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126396
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101395
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 951232
Teil A-C
Franz Schubert. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke II/8a-c
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 746056
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/37
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 868936
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/5
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 869097
Kantaten BWV 12, 103, 146
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/11/2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 497370
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/3/1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 880987
aus dem Geistlichen Gesangbuchlein (Worms 1525)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1199314
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897858
(StudioTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124669
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982972
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126261
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038937
18 fünfstimmige und ein doppelchöriges Madrigal mit deutschen Übersetzungen
Heinrich Schütz. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke 22
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 643652
Volume 10: "Ich hab mein Sach Gott heimgestellt"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 695314
Passionsvertonung
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 874831
First Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), violin, violone, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1011287
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 901484
From "Three Dunbar Hymns"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1625940
Carnations Grew In My Garden, Op. 29/2
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1041816
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 879401
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