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: Women's choir (SA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 463869
Life is happiness indeed
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198632
from: Geistliche Chor-Music
for: Mixed choir (7 parts); 7 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1160727
Entstehungsjahr unbekannt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 234095
RV 610
Stuttgarter Vivaldi Ausgaben - Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234735
Erstausgabe nach den Klosterneuburger Stimmen
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 237188
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937208
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936885
Jazz
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936594
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905008
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928087
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930012
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932884
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909032
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 899149
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 948895
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 948548
Evening Canticles (Mag and Nunc) for SSAATTBB Chorus
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1031972
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 942918
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947764
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1669637
für 4- bis 8-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 386014
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 457106
Traditional Celtic tunes
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 644616
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 414604
Nos. 24 and 25 From "Cantiones Sacrae" - for S.A.T.B. and Keyboard (Latin and English Text)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626097
HWV 258
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 868968
No. 5 The Prayer of the Raven
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898515
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 326394
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 555179
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 637678
Contemporary Sacred Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634780
Sviatïy Bozhe (Svjatyj Bože)
mit Klavierbegleitung zu Übungszwecken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 635504
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 746235
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 203699
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203646
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203636
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 215984
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 549498
Cantata
Chormusik des 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings [organ]
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 425803
O ye people
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 467661
Early Music Library 335
for: 4 voices [4 melodic instruments]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 336650
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 333126
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 549494
Sound Of Norway
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 301094
for: Male choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 346240
zum Weihnachtsfest über "Ein Kindelein so löbelich"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1024905
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB); 6 melodic instruments (colla parte), double bass, organ ad lib.
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1160861
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