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.
Hodie nata est Beata Virgo Maria
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 310505
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 1582059
Aus "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor"
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 308439
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 689965
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915961
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115626
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001794
A Civil War Ballad
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878971
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092055
Soprano Voice
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1105852
Flute, Horn in F, Tambourine
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150483
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111009
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330492
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953437
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122673
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 917095
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953923
GIA Celebration Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1154938
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342183
S.A.T.B. Chorus, A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625737
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953383
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324606
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1202842
Motette
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043931
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043956
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043963
for: Mixed choir, piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1105625
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1108969
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 952330
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953356
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 838633
Opera con peripezia
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 778909
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124644
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984973
(from Season of Wonders)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823756
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914017
Motette
Psalm 131 aus "Kleiner Psalter" (1950)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869817
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 989605
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125156
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911614
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002253
Kanon
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742675
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 864256
Oboe or C instrument
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154047
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 924304
Lass Dich Nur Nichts Nicht Dauren
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1043197
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1043261
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