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.
(Weihnachten
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730077
(Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730076
(Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730075
Text und Mel.: Leipziger Handschrift 15. Jahrhundert (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730042
Mel: 15. Jahrhundert; Text: Str. 1-2 vorreformat., Str. 3: Berlin 1853 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730036
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730032
(Latvia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726416
Nr. 4 der fälschlich J. S. Bach zugeschriebenen Kantate: "Uns ist ein Kind geboren"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722946
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722381
Breslau 1555 (15. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725379
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202760
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 212118
ZWV 108
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 685599
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 260763
Weihnachtsschlager "Der Weihnachtsmann kommt"
for: 5 voices (TTBarBarB) [Male choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671073
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; soloists, orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1670992
4 Handbells
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158885
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125820
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125527
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077169
SATB w/opt. C Instrument
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 860005
Instrument Parts: Conductor's Score, Piano, Flute, 2 Violins & 2 Cellos (or Synth Strings)
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 857195
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160461
The Cold December
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124057
für gem Chor (SAM) und Orgel (Instrumente ad lib) Stimmensatz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 664870
Easter Triduum and Pentecost
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158535
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904196
SATB w/opt. Brass & Timpani
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919596
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040735
Geborn ist der Emanuel
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2328
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982758
für gemischten Chor (SAM/SATB), Gemeinde, Streicher und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), parish, orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 685054
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1150281
SATB & Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918687
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 1126802
String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1153166
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 635153
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 856881
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039846
from the Cadenza volume 'En Bethlehem'
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 766091
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124463
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126315
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815823
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1124563
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342319
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1059304
Motette
dorisch
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649756
2-3 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 859153
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