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.
Strubes Chorblaetter 12
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 425454
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 489209
Cantata for Christmas Day
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 552480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560701
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 603279
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 607232
Weihnachtslied aus dem Elsass
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204755
Ein Zyklus alter Advents- und Weihnachtslieder
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [melodic instruments]
Part 3 in C, Bass Clef
Item no.: 204538
Weihnachtsmotette
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202713
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 128703
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 125534
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 469552
Weihnachtskantate für gemischten Chor, Oberchor (Soloterzett) und Streicher
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 474907
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364726
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 466282
Praetorius: Vom Himmel hoch - Bach: Lobt Gott, ihr Christen - Praetorius: Wie schön leucht' uns der Morgenstern - Vulpius: Aus Saba kamen Kön'ge dar
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 365130
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 473040
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 378165
Dormi In Suavia
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 flutes, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 365827
für Sopran, Chor, 2 Trompeten, 2 Violinen, Baß und Pauken
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 334464
Weihnachtslieder Alter Meister
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 334107
Choralkantate
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 119263
Incorporating "Sing We Now Of Christmas" and "He Is Born, The Divine Christ Child"
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1627981
S.A.T.B. and Organ
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625875
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117169
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341539
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148786
Weihnachtslied aus der Bretagne
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136797
aus: Zwölf deutsche geistliche Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1109062
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 587156
Geistliches Konzert
Hoch rühmt und ehrt meine Seele Gott den Herrn
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Chor 2, Instrument 2
Item no.: 661214
Geistliches Konzert
Hoch rühmt und ehrt meine Seele Gott den Herrn
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Chor 2, Instrument 1
Item no.: 661213
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647981
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1654252
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Oboe d'amore (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1666841
für vier Solostimmen (SATB), gemischten Chor (SATB), Orchester und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 681781
aus: Magnificat
Es-Dur-Fassung, transponiert nach D-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), organ; 4 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Ensemble score
Item no.: 235536
aus: Magnificat
Es-Dur-Fassung, transponiert nach D-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), organ; 4 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Ensemble score
Item no.: 235535
KV 195 (186d)
Chorpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 235091
Magnifikat
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234738
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 236112
Kantate zum Sonntag Estomihi
Viola
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233935
Adventliches Singspiel über Lukas 17,11-19
Die biblischen Singspiele von Ulrich Gohl sind ein Versuch, Kinder und Erwachsene mitgestaltend am Gottesdienst zu beteiligen.
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 231407
for: Male choir
Item no.: 242639
GL 141
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309167
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 422873
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644866
Weihnachts-Motette
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362501
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