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: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1664085
Neue geistliche Lieder zu Geburt und Taufe für 1-stg. Kinderchor oder Sologesang und Klavier (Gitarre, E-Bass und Schlagzeug ad lib.)
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1684531
Frauenbewegung in lauten Tönen
Lieder für Frauenchor und Instrumente
for: Women's choir, several instruments
Score
Item no.: 1660230
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1664200
Drei Vertonungen zum Luther-Jahr
für gemischten Chor und Instrumente (ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1654264
The Beatles
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 458473
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 406874
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 908194
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315043
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 343767
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 136999
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116017
nach Art der Welschen Villanellen
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 2
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115713
Azione teatrale per musica in drei Akten von Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Wiener Fassung von 1762
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Sämtliche Werke I/1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115362
Blüte, Frucht und Kern, Heft 6
for: Women's choir (SSA/SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115294
für fünf Stimmen
Monteverdi-Gesamtausgabe Bd. 4
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 124503
5 Songs for unsison voices and piano
for: Choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 113157
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 113066
daraus: Chor der Priester, "O Isis und Osiris, welche Wonne"
Berühmte Opernchöre
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 144502
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1250411
Ein rhythmisches Liederbuch
for: Children's choir, Orff instruments
Sheet music, Audio tape
Item no.: 1681338
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121285
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 859247
Together We Sing Series
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122827
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 882552
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 680504
pour choeur à voix égales a cappella
partition
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1478396
für 7 Frauenstimmen, 4-5 gemischte Stimmen (solistisch oder chorisch) und Fernchor ad lib.
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1582003
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671248
für Chor (oder Vokalensemble) und Kongregation
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish
Choir score
Item no.: 1660340
Gloria - Credo für gemischten Chor (SATB)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 143016
part 5 and index
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik 63
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 142974
Musik der Thomaskantoren zu Leipzig
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117520
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117514
Auswahl
musica sacra nova
for: Choir, organ
Chorpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 117269
8 Kompositionen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts für das Kirchenjahr vom Tag der Darstellung des Herrn (2. Februar) bis Pfingstmontag
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117127
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116962
9 mehrstrophige Lieder, incl. Editionsbericht
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)]
Score
Item no.: 641651
Highlight-Medley der beliebtesten Udo Jürgens-Hits für gemischten Chor und Klavier, oder/und Gitarre, Bass, Schlagzeug
Instrumentalstimmen (Combo)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Set of parts
Item no.: 655380
"Feiger Gedanken"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742401
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121282
Novello New Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897730
Novello Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 888554
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 877849
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Buch
Item no.: 556412
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 494218
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 322067
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 910484
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