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.
Pflichtstück des Internationalen Kammerchor-Wettbewerbs Marktoberdorf 2003
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424738
aus: Drei Motetten
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1336621
Passion cantata KV 42 (35a)
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 140633
Contemporary Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 179474
Belwin Festival Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 370434
für Chor und Orgel; Gemeinde und Orchester ad lib.
for: Women's choir (SA) [mixed choir (SABar/SATB)], organ; parish, orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 675864
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 493522
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 635616
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 188843
12 leichte Motetten nach Psalmworten für drei gemischte Stimmen (SABar)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 127761
Misatango
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 775059
Singspiel in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124875
Missa Tempore Adventus et Quadragesimae, Verwendung auch in der Adventszeit möglich (Messe ohne Gloria)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 237737
Mit Klavierstimme zu Übungszwecken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 620065
Latin Motets Choral Series
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 1677030
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1260077
Kantate für gemischten Chor, Bläser (Horn, 2 Trompeten, 2 Posaunen) und Orgel
for: Mixed choir, brass winds, organ
Score
Item no.: 139458
Europäische Volkslieder für gemischten Chor (in Originalsprache)
Chorbuch
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 460808
Ode to Joy
Vocal score compatible with all available music editions
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 636742
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben – Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 632309
pour baryton solo, choeur de barytons, orchestre et orgue
reduction chant et orgue
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (Bar), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 161206
Dona nobis pacem, Domine
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 166951
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904599
Volume I & II
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 466393
Cantata for the Sunday of Septuagesimae
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233456
Süddeutsche Kirchenmusik des Barock Band 5
Erstdruck
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 331856
for: Mixed choir, brass winds, organ
Score
Item no.: 561968
Contemporary Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814364
(from The Wizard of Oz)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801800
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 779170
Hail, Star of the Sea
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985645
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 275095
Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901677
Esztergomi mise
Musicotheca Classica 4
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 850876
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1147523
Bearbeitung für Chor und Kammerensemble
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Set of parts
Item no.: 778353
Vocal Version
Studien-Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 493084
Gospels & Spirituals für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 496068
Drama lirico in tre atti e cinque quadri
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 389441
Dramma tragico in due parti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 389013
Melodramma in due atti
Ricordi Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389012
Melodramma in due Atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 389011
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392126
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 90
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360852
Frauenchor
Chorpartitur
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 865114
Kantate nach Psalm 103
Das Kuhnau-Projekt
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 633871
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 614408
Facsimile of the autograph score in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 586130
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