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.
[with The Christmas Song Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire]
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803426
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802706
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801650
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801390
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806957
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 555042
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Buch
Item no.: 314592
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815596
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813471
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 813377
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813140
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813075
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813052
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812920
with We Wish You a Merry Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812888
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812085
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811894
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 811863
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809992
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804746
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801897
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 813773
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 813667
with Masters in This Hall
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812855
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803853
from White Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812198
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813204
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810559
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810539
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808544
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808466
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808093
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806195
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806140
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811105
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 565495
(with Canon in D and The First Noel)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965250
Choral Collection
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 318908
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 167214
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909747
From Joy To The World
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1001321
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 120657
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano/baritone), keyboard instrument; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1660599
Kantate zum 3. Weihnachtsfesttag (Urfassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1659317
Ein musikalischer Adventskalender
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1646422
BR-CPEB E 4
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 644500
Kantate für den 2. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 463884
aus: Musica Mariana
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 444987
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