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: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950628
Contemporary Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1108011
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038459
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123941
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 918309
Percussion Parts
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856857
aus dem Toskanischen
for: 4 voices (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1545772
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608699
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039400
2. Pfirsich ess ich gern "Sind die Pfirsich rund und reif"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 751881
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865440
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124724
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919362
Régi mesterek vegyeskarai 46
for: Mixed choir (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 850998
from Japan
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728175
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857289
From "The Dorian Service"
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 930871
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 983622
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342560
Sechs Lieder und Romanzen Op. 93a N. 6
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043606
Gedenkmesse
nach der Inschrift des Grabes von Nikolai W. Gogol (Jer. 20,8)
Schott Kammerchor
for: 8 soloists (SSAATTBB), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 688666
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148898
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950277
Offertorium
Ausgewählte Offertorien
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 302754
for: Choir
Buch und MC
Item no.: 899664
12 Mottetti
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 641246
Sechs Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 989489
Sieben Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 989490
Psalm 126
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 989636
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 989744
per coro a 4 voci
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 989896
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 990036
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1041294
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122726
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 884100
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124130
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124103
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 893631
3-5 oct. w/opt. 3-4 oct. Handchimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 859044
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158231
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1149211
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077852
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 871950
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1154721
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919173
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 899058
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917904
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832124
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