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.
for: Mixed choir, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 998523
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915249
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 824537
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097588
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097715
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096710
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097515
2 Flutes
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151278
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1151684
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906690
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152973
Puer Natus Est
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1150426
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121521
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325564
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916054
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959415
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097207
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911785
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1150415
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150947
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915589
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1015607
"Christkindlmesse"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Kettledrum
Item no.: 1639270
Graduale u. Offertorium für die 3. Messe des Weihnachtsfestes, mit Orchester u. Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 638277
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913197
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341949
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 979250
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 290110
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 302785
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185546
Pastoralmotette für gem Chor, 2 Violinen und Bc
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Single part Organ
Item no.: 362887
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 697300
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 579650
Mitternachtsmesse zu Weihnachten
Urtext-Ausgabe – Musique sacrée française
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678035
Hugo Wolf Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1208996
Strings or 2 Treble Instruments, Continuo
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158344
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156724
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 487597
for: Male choir
[englisch]
Item no.: 468208
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 462106
"Evangelische Gespräche I, 7" (C-Dur)
zusätzliche Chorpartitur für chorische Aufführung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), violin, cornett [2 violins], basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 602285
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 565445
Pastoralmotette für gem Chor, 2 Violinen und Bc
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 243600
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 244891
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 128656
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 344087
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 137440
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 190378
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