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.
Alfred Pop Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 635592
"Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" aus dem Theaterstück "Die Dreigroschenoper" (1928)
bearbeitet für gemischten Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 487743
"Swing Low" for two-part Choir and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679767
for Mixed Choir (SATB) a cappella
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 679681
for Women's Choir (SSA) and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 679668
for Mixed Choir (SABar) and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 679645
for two-part voices and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679642
Lawson-Gould
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678458
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678339
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678333
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 587013
Traditional (Samanthra)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1653346
Hob. XXII: 2
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1652437
SSAATTBB and SSATB unaccompanied
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 363442
Kantate für den 16.Sonntag nach Trinitatis
für Soli, gem Chor, 2 Fl, 2 Vl, Va und Bc (dt/en)
Urtext
for: Mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 622942
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 615229
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205772
bevorzugt solistisch aufgeführt
12 Solospieler
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 343537
Cantata for 25th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550964
Cantata for the 2nd day of Pentecost
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666939
Cantata for the 1st Sunday in Advent
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663108
Cantata for the 1st Sunday in Advent
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663105
Kantate zum Sonntag Exaudi
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 660038
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 655451
Psalm 42 MWV A 15
Arrangement for chamber orchestra
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 771686
ohne Umschlag
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)], piano
Choir score
Item no.: 696377
for: Choir (S/SA/SAM), piano; wind instruments, rhythm-group ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 693489
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Streicherbegleitung ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 635872
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 475463
aus: Zwei Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 443875
Cantata for Easter Sunday
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 442909
for mixed chorus (SAM) and piano
funky soul sing-along
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 377248
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319319
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017457
New Zealand Folksong
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817948
Sequential Sight-Reading in the Choral Classroom
Teacher Edition
for: School choir
Teacher's manual, online audio
Item no.: 796614
Discovery Broadway Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 564740
for two-part female chorus and piano
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 138277
for 2-part chorus and piano score
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 442786
Life is happiness indeed
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198632
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 813218
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 294608
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 556859
Sing with the Choir Volume 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 476901
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 376201
(Choral Highlights)
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 761951
from Les Misérables
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 761944
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1026881
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