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: Choral
Item no.: 1377481
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377026
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1298653
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1599539
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1599534
Texte Français
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310587
Helbling Secular Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1690488
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1270028
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1285544
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1239714
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1239710
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1004975
for: Choir
Item no.: 420617
For Tenor or Soprano Solo Voice, Chorus SATB and Concert Band
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588911
Wind Band / Brass Band / Fanfare
Music for Concerts, Weddings, Chistmas and other Church Occasions
for: Concert band [Fanfare (brass & saxophones)/brass band]; choir ad lib.
20 choir scores
Item no.: 588868
incl. Chorus SATB
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587643
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588676
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588672
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588570
Chor (SATB) & Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 590108
for cher, congregation and 2 organe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 organs
Music score
Item no.: 622030
(Hirtenlied / Shepherds Song)
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 621806
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 137674
Gospelmusik
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Item no.: 132872
Canto ergo sum 9
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 132615
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 287222
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284631
Cantata
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 284201
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 493061
Kinderchorlieder
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 363110
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 362731
Messen der Drucke Paris 1607 und München 1610
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 8
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115892
Band 1: Lied-Bicinien
202 Choralsätze zum EKG von 46 zeitgenössischen Komponisten für 2 gleiche Stimmen
teilweise mit einem Melodieinstrument ad lib
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115814
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 6
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115717
Italienisches Madrigal Nr. 18
for: Choir
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115668
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1259808
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1259582
for: Male choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261982
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169467
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1159531
Volume 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1159369
GIA Evoking Sound
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158964
Vocal-Keyboard-Guitar Score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1153915
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1153456
(StudioTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1126537
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125511
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123891
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