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.
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799435
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798539
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801032
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798764
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802115
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802069
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801444
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 798376
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802383
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813341
Traditional French Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808982
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 798953
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801391
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800531
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813433
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812841
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 799662
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901098
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 127751
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Coventry Carol, The first Novell
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 672994
für Blasorchester (gem Chor a d lib)
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1559754
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 589044
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Tambourine & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590807
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Tambourine & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir, 5 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590758
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 1656123
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1653186
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804375
Faber New Choral Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 140067
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609532
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609531
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609529
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609298
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608436
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801957
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801664
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801564
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802991
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802783
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803853
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810574
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808544
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806140
for: Mixed choir (SATB), violin
Score
Item no.: 346506
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951421
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950448
Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813390
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811105
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807329
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