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.
Dreistimmige Gesänge
Band 3
Band III
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 288889
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295910
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295719
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295594
"Die Lerche in blaue Höh' entschwebt" - Walzerop. 410
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 295486
Bearbeitung des 1. Satzes für gemischten Chor
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 159804
Gesänge zur Begräbnisfeier
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 174389
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 165322
Berühmte Humoreske
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 209305
“Singet dem Herrn”
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 209219
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 207532
Zwei Oden des Dichters
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 299871
Operette in 3 Bildern
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 299812
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 313219
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 311517
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 229339
(liturgisch)op. 147
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 225447
Auftragswerk des 93. Deutschen Katholikentags e.V., Mainz
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 228244
Urtextausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 227632
(complete, Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 290085
Frühlingskantate für Jugendchor und Instrumente
(Querflöte oder Altblockflöte in f', 2 Violinen und Violoncello)
Partitur
for: Youth choir (SSA), flute [alto recorder], 2 violins, cello
Score
Item no.: 289012
"Sing dem Herrn ein Lied"op. 86
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Partitur
Item no.: 289003
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 292842
Fragment aus Goethes "Harzreise im Winter" (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloist (alto), male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287094
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 6th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 303769
im Satz für Männerchor
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 301943
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285670
Funeral Ode
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285578
Kantate (15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis)BWV 138
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285532
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285493
Lieder aus dem " Gotteslob "
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 283421
Volkslieder und Jodler aus der Waldheimat
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 283324
12 kleine dreistimmige Motetten zum Gebrauch im Gottesdienst
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 217838
Ein geistlicher Festgesang für Männerchor und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Male choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 217398
5. Handwerksburschen-Wanderlied "Auf, du junger Wandersmann"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202558
1. Bastellied: "Lass uns alleine machen"
for: Children's choir (SSMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202414
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202280
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 201706
op. 34
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 204990
3. Frühlingsliebe "Wenn der Frühling kommt"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204978
4. Heimlicher Liebe Pein "Mein Schatz ist auf die Wanderschaft hin" ("Des Knaben Wunderhorn")
Schott Chormusik
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204941
Nr. 3 aus: Sieben Hölderlin-Chöre GeWV 40
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204917
2. Mein schönste Zier (Leipzig 1573)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204891
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 204854
nach der "Deutschen Kindermesse"op. 108
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204704
5 Scherzi
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204670
5. The Miller of Dee "War einst ein braver Müllersmann"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204587
op. 24
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 200789
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