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.
SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762599
SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762528
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 841926
Festchor zu Advent und Weihnachten
für SATB, Streicher und Orgel oder mit Orgel allein (enthält beide Fassungen)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 633227
Historia der freuden- und gnadenreichen Geburt Gottes und Marien Sohnes Jesu Christi
Weihnachtshistorie
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1355824
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1641220
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 145444
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 165789
Weihnachtskantate
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo (Organ)
Item no.: 169575
Mass with Christmas hymns
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 640907
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 236792
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 236784
BR-CPEB E 4
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234192
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 579706
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342187
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121489
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308562
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096031
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1097408
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092265
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923530
SATB a cappella
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1161015
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158017
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937743
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115635
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152877
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931096
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155304
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151820
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 959618
4. Inmitten der Nacht
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733115
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159956
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 629910
MOTETTE F. 4STG.CHOR, 2 FL., STR. U. ORGEL CHORPARTITUR
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 657009
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912429
Weihnachtskantate für gemischten Chor, Oberchor (Soloterzett) und Streicher
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 474911
Ein Krippenspiel
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Single part Melody instrument (C/B-flat)
Item no.: 487683
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 552447
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 485112
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308875
Bremer Chorblaetter 741
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271927
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 128762
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 128655
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 577108
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 604243
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 152330
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 144831
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742456
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