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.
10 geistliche Lieder
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book, online audio (app)
Item no.: 1215736
"Oratorische Passion nach Matthäus"
Das Chorwerk
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 recorders, 2 oboes, 3 violins, viola, cello, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 188988
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 198623
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285589
Early Sacred Choral Romanticism from France
If this score is delivered individually - and not in connection with the choir scores - some passages will be stamped illegible by the publisher.
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Score
Item no.: 585563
pour choeur pour voix de femmes (ou d'enfants)
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170193
"Symphonie der Tausend"
Mahler - Gesamtausgabe 8
Nach dem Text der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe. Herausgegeben von der Internationalen Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, Wien
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 577389
für Solostimmen (SATB), Chor, Streicher und Basso continuo (Theorbe / Orgel)
for: Soloists (SATB), mixed choir, string-instrument, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 184323
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 186331
Streicherset (1-1-0-2)
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 175981
Passionsmusik in sieben Teilen
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 247112
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score, Choir score, Songbook
Item no.: 159676
Krönungskantate
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392519
tragedia lirica divisa in prologò e due atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389080
Oper in einem Akt op. 11
for: 2 soloists (SBar), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124401
Ed. Critica A. Zedda
Volume 20 - Sezione Prima - Opere Teatrali
Ricordi Critical Editions (mit kritischem Bericht) (with critical report)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 274947
for: Women's choir (SSAA), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 466860
Opéra en 5 actes
copie d'archive
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 478277
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 559081
Schule
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 370709
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 339467
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389059
Série III - Vol.6 ISIS
Tragédie en musique (LWV54)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662218
Lied und Foxtrot
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 338088
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 184253
Leicht singbare Chor-Hits mit Ohrwurm-Charakter
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 633463
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 6th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 190089
col organo
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 145140
Chart Toppers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 656462
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 607756
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 315459
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912134
(Zerbrochenes Lied)
Zwölf Gedichte von David Rokeah
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 658417
(Collection, Urtext)
for: Male choir
Music score
Item no.: 379193
Oper in 4 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 210614
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 682164
Cantata for Purification
BWV 83
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 233344
aus: Lamentationes pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 279301
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), viola, cello
Score
Item no.: 1544113
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1093174
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 138249
Studien-Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492827
Melodramma in un atto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 128194
für SA oder TB mit Klavier
for: Women's choir (SA) [male choir (TB)], piano
Score
Item no.: 561678
aus "The Strathclyde Motets"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 478086
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321646
Requiem
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 762112
Funeral music
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661158
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