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.
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1336775
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339096
per coro a voci pari
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 466341
nach „American Patrol“
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; clarinet, saxophone, guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 497548
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 463243
Beliebte Seemannslieder für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 343875
Cantata for a wedding
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 673213
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1336766
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag (Frühfassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233444
Kantate zum Ratswechsel
Umgestaltung der gleichnamigen Kantate zum 12. Sonntag nach Trinitatis BWV 69a
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233158
Kyrie und Gloria
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237150
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola d'amore (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233918
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339954
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1340190
(Part of Psalm 50) for double choir
(Az 50. zsoltár része) kettős karra
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273015
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1336636
Bestimmung unbekannt
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233516
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 344550
Kyrie und Gloria
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237153
Kyrie und Gloria
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237152
Psalm 127
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 608466
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 379570
Ein Musikspiel in 4 Akten über das Leben der im Jahre 1236 heiliggesprochenen Elisabeth
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Songbook
Item no.: 245923
Leuckart-Chor-Ausgabe
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1106030
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1016314
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 630997
No. 2 of "Two Psalms"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 133677
Nur zusammen mit Chorstimmen lieferbar!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; accordion, guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 341673
Kantate zum Sonntag nach Neujahr
Violine 2
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 681097
Liederzyklus
for: Choir (1-4 voices), piano [2 violins, viola, cello]; upper melodic instrument ad lib.
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 692050
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1669160
Cantata for the Sunday of Septuagesimae
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233457
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 368869
A csata, avagy a Marignano-i ütközet 1515
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256462
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet/mandolin orchestra/rhythm group (accordion, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 145021
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 338962
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 349209
Kantate zum Fest Mariae Heimsuchung (Leipziger Fassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 497399
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 644722
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1669162
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1336764
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339947
Kyrie und Gloria
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237151
for: Children's choir [women's choir]
Item no.: 312717
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 300792
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Item no.: 444020
A kovács
for: 2 soloists (TB), male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 255176
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 582230
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