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 a cappella
CD
Item no.: 693252
Carols for Christmas
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672414
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799696
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815289
from Beauty and the Beast – The Enchanted Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 632770
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 489800
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 344378
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804906
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813589
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812447
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806577
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317204
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 797646
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965551
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 799497
Traditional Dutch Choral
Sacred Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 697586
19th Century Basque Carol
Sacred Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745708
Traditional English Folksong
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 690700
POD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862740
for: 2 voices (SS) [women's choir], 2 violins, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 647361
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 745000
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815480
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814284
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807485
Oxford Carols W98
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 460525
(Weihnachtszeit, fröhliche Zeit)
Weihnachtslied mit deutschem und englischem Text von Claudia Jung und Cliff Richard
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 660000
Winter Wonderland
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 191697
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 477066
Aus Schottland
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746582
from CoolSide of Yuletide
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897775
Come All You Worthy Gentlemen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1552918
Silent Night - The Infant King - Lullay Lord Jesus
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486700
for mixed choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 475451
for: Mixed choir, keyboard instrument
Score
Item no.: 608122
A collection of six carols
(Pack of 10)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
10 scores
Item no.: 579255
SAM-Klang
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532677
for: Mixed choir, keyboard instrument
Choir score
Item no.: 745806
Weihnachtslieder gemeinsam singen in jeder Besetzung
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691771
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 744812
Carol of Burgundy
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861789
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 344270
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 469908
for: Male choir (TTBB), flute [violin], piano
Score
Item no.: 772238
Kantate (Epiphanias)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285459
3. Weihnachtsfesttag
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285458
for choir (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 2315
(Text aus "Winnetou III")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3050
Am Neujahrstag
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4130
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