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 (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1530188
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377621
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375637
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890255
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 586900
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 576766
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 485914
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 478691
for SATB choir, cor anglais (or clarinet, or viola) and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 477328
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 948055
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941008
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943877
Jazz
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944986
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937082
Featuring: Your Mama Don't Dance - Dancing in the Street - Get on Your Feet
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 937040
Set I - [3]
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 937033
for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 471519
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 470988
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 446598
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 363443
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935615
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935462
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935242
for female chorus and piano
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 658578
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 931471
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931149
Opt. Bells and Rhythm Instruments
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932840
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 901715
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 888236
From the Musical "The Wiz"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; winds, rhythm section ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746219
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; flute, percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745876
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 581080
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910449
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905883
As performed by Annie Lennox
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910059
Pop und Rock
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908419
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 841737
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 443857
Bukolische Tragödie in einem Aufzug von Joseph Gregor
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 107024
Nr. 1 aus: Vier ungarische Volkslieder
Winthrop Rogers Edition
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668004
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105681
Sound Of Norway
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 1658593
No. 2 Have you seen the white lily grow
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 896680
Doreen Rao's Choral Music Experience
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909480
No. 4 At the River
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897717
for: Mixed choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 905662
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864474
Klassik
for: Women's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1559084
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