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 (SATB), string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1689196
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820504
J Palant: Brothers Sing On
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330910
New Voices Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 687205
Small Voices
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1645305
for: Mixed choir (SMezATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695453
Andeliga Sånger
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 985316
Der Musikforscher Malcolm Bruno erstellte auf Basis der inzwischen als Parodievorlage etablierten Trauerode BWV 198 eine neue Rekonstruktion des Werks
for: Narrator, 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1684833
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985401
Eric Whitacre Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582353
Swiss Composers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671538
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, percussion) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1690237
Lyric Fairy Tale in Three Acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615891
Prüfungsliteratur
for: School class
Book, CD-ROM
Item no.: 1329757
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 983108
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 983107
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866593
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125448
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1327036
Pavane Secular
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168454
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985255
Shawnee Press
for: School class
OTHER
Item no.: 1656248
Régi mesterek vegyeskarai 17
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850730
A Masque
opera in three acts and a prologue
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 770783
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343075
Festival Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633243
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 904674
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962266
Trad. Schottland (Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730201
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897474
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 894507
No. 4 from From the Heart
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 887225
No. 1 from Three Madrigals After Dowland
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 868461
A Cathedral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 638986
Sounds of a Better World
for: Mixed choir (SATB), djembé, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 687720
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862135
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 862591
Opera in 2 acts and 15 scenes
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyrics
Item no.: 903692
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909332
Laying the Foundation for Successful Part-Singing
for: Choir, piano
Music lesson book, CD-Rom
Item no.: 641053
Craig Hella Johnson Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 642072
SATB, Organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 642980
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 836956
for: Male choir (TTB), organ
Score
Item no.: 886674
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 908412
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 904285
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 892375
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1043051
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