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 a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204494
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204492
5. The devil a monk would be - Art lässt nicht von Art
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204489
4. Tambourin "Viens de ce bocage"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204463
3. Puisque tout passe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204430
5. Hufeisen und Rosen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204291
2. Drunten in Baranya
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204285
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204194
2. "Ach, vernimm diesen Ton"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 204187
4. Abendlied "Augen, meine lieben Fensterlein"op. 81
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204157
3. Kyushu Tanko Bushi - Kohlengräberlied "Mond schimmert auf"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204086
"Wer kein Mädchen hat"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204073
1. Im Sommer "Wie Feld und Au so blinkend im Tau!"op. 25
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205019
Sing
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204987
"Es regnet, es regnet, der Kuckuck wird nass" / "Liebe Sonne, scheine wieder"
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSAA)
Choir score
Item no.: 204951
1. Dort hoch auf jenem Berge / 2. Es ist ein Schnee gefallen
Schott Chormusik
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204937
"Die Flut steigt bis an den Ararat"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204874
Volkslied vom Niederrhein
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204848
2. O Jesu, Herr der Herrlichkeit
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204837
3. Gestern bei Mondenschein
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204744
"Und Feueräpfel klopfen"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204682
4. Zu Hause "Wenn der Abend winkt"
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204674
(Kastilien)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204594
for: Male choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 121358
aus Spanien
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 120171
aus Frankreich
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 120123
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 391719
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 199244
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203912
"Es ist ein Bäumlein gestanden im Wald"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 203869
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203844
4. Das Männlein im Weinberg "Wenn die Reben blühen"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 203776
Sängerspruch des SB Rheinland-Pfalz / Begrüßung der Sänger
Bläserstimmensatz
for: Male choir (TTBB) [mixed choir (SATB)]; brass winds ad lib.
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 203750
2. Der Postillon "Was willst du auf dieser Station"op. 33
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203742
2. Am Morgen nach der Hochzeit "Wo seid ihr Lieben geblieben"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203718
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203690
"Ach wie gerne" (Kroatien)
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203666
3. Stadturlaub "Ich hab mein Käppi in den Spind getan"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203639
1. England: Früh, vor dem Tage
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 203577
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203476
"Es tanzen Mond und Sterne"op. 28
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 203470
"Andreas Gryphius"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202778
"Der Tod reit' auf einem kohlschwarzen Rappen"op. 9
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202668
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202483
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 202404
"Gott ist mein Lied"op. 48/5
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202313
"Woluf ihr lieben Gsellen" (ums Jahr 1513)op. 67/1
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202308
Text von Louis Fürnberg
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 123223
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