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.
Red Hot Recorder
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1193356
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925929
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937923
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097302
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 827256
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168784
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 779055
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125567
for: Choir
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1156977
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960154
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341676
Oper/Operette
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 867047
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 867409
Kantate
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 853526
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor (SATB), Orgel (Klavier) und Bläserquartett, Pauken ad lib.
Trompeten in B und Pauken
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Trumpets, timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 677461
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 921642
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915030
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100874
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324671
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097198
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608909
nach dem Johannesevangelium
[Kapitel 18 und 19]
for: Soloists, narrator, mixed choir (SAM), organ
Score
Item no.: 1678422
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1610122
Motette
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 876228
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1136806
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1592520
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608560
Teil 2
für gemischten Chor, Kinderchor, 6 Solostimmen und großes Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 672215
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609925
Opera rara
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 682119
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 1608546
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608932
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609413
Orchestermaterial
for: Choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1632455
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608718
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 853127
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 866478
Pour Quatre Voix Mixtes A Capella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 892464
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 889973
Oper/Operette
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 864035
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 921914
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901498
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111662
From Ye Tuneful Muses
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 884864
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960553
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124100
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095736
Oper/Operette
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907720
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