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.
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1317902
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964811
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 872991
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901527
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982832
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982673
Domestics - Six Choral Cameos
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317956
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317769
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983117
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 983116
From Mozart's 12Th Mass
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951048
for Mixed Choir a Cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 934799
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690675
34 lateinische Motetten für Frauenchor a capella
for: Women's choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 674124
Hob.: XXIII Anhang / Nachtrag
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3012
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106564
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 893661
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 911616
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982734
für 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 Stimmen
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1542255
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343076
Drei Lieder für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 620701
Sacred Repertoire, Volume 1 – Advent to Palm Sunday
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 687855
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 688677
Oratorio for solo voices (STB), mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680591
The complete singing resource for primary schools
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score (spiral binding), Playback CD
Item no.: 768266
for two Mixed Choirs (SMezATBarB/SATB) a cappella
for: 2 mixed choirs (SMATBarB/SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 676398
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 863002
Jesaja, dem Propheten, was geschah / The Vision of Isaiah
for: Choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1011501
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 796783
Medley of eight songs
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682173
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 776754
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317733
Gospel auf neuen Wegen
for: Mixed choir (SMezAB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 489051
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 617025
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 657729
from Monty Python's Spamalot
Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 497887
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 861959
Psalm 91
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 861754
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 613964
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 931505
Secular Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670406
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 982899
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1560646
in B flat
Autograph Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 637589
for SATB choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 634804
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 631008
for: Male choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 580767
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