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.
see - A Christmas Triptych
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155664
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1001682
Performance CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1059210
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911580
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 917109
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907203
Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964694
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1095841
Christmas Choruses and Solos
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115982
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167829
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124096
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960143
Singer 5 Pak
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1003562
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1150528
A Celtic Christmas Celebration
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1126471
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096913
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824484
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733251
Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824391
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154251
Graduale u. Offertorium für die 3. Messe des Weihnachtsfestes, mit Orchester u. Orgel
Österreichische Kirchenmusik Band 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 638179
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985080
für gemischten Chor, Flöte, Klarinette, Horn und Orgel
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1530210
In Nativitate Christi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Single parts Violins 1 and 2
Item no.: 655842
The Christmas Chorus Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1091839
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117246
Heft 5 aus «Musik aus der Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn»
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 687309
Musik aus der Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn Band 4
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 687315
für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 671135
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 867604
(passend zu allen Chorausgaben)
Maritimes Advents- und Weihnachtslied
for: Choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1558462
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1656841
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1202231
(Mel.: Wittenberg 1543)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746833
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 646517
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825512
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Single part marimba
Item no.: 690350
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552088
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552091
Shine lovely Christmas star
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907234
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097727
Full Score, Violin 1, Violin 2, Cello, Trombone 1 and Trombone 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1150782
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117410
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 253287
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 629912
Heinz Tust
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115071
1. Fassung Es-dur BWV 243a/ 2. Fassung D-dur BWV 243
Gesamtausgabe, Kritischer Bericht
Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/3
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 655565
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 328694
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