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: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096950
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952910
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 931632
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121588
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908909
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1142177
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925726
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110974
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319781
Oper/Operette
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925721
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329003
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319603
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1342072
S.A.T.B., With Piano
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625635
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1110866
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100685
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110169
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002458
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092214
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097364
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 855124
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125595
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1116404
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324506
Integrity Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330768
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915573
From "Five Rounds On Famous Words," for Satb, A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625830
Arrangement for Soloists, Choir and Chamber Orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 642348
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330561
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914277
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 883392
Het lied van de vis
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910208
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832212
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985251
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609664
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913104
(Joh. 7,6)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 876387
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
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 695404
New revised version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 761993
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 868798
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 879222
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 979000
Epistelmotette zum Sonntag Exaudi
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869758
Adventsmotette für drei- und vierstimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella
musica sacra nova
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 869715
Motette zu Worten von Matthias Claudius
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 883566
Epistel-Motette zum Sonntag Sexagesimae
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869081
Choralkantate
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 882765
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