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 (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 319921
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924065
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907324
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 905596
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1172599
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 840809
für gem Chor und Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band; organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 633953
Harmonia-Popular Music (lichte muziek)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924019
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915361
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915178
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914518
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912426
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905007
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 931580
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911390
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169188
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1175420
Psalm 110
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 781384
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 618475
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122254
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122516
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 825656
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058069
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903612
Concert and Contest Collection CBHA
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 863162
Choral Medley
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800552
Choral Medley
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812586
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1021459
Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814601
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903891
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 777559
Later Elementary Level
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 933987
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924876
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003362
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003044
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 857665
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 838096
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 839684
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672888
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 836427
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835157
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835028
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835013
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 834973
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 834910
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835101
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557042
(arr. from Vespers), Psalm 93
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 861574
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