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: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947102
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947091
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 947089
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940262
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940178
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940116
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 940006
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940000
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936597
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936539
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936525
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936458
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936443
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936420
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936393
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936377
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936371
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936370
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936363
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936359
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936348
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936277
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936264
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936251
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936191
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936131
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936121
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936055
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936023
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935973
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935968
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935917
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935912
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935874
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938658
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938577
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938774
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937582
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937499
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 937403
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937359
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 937314
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937272
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937203
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937199
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