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.
aus dem Geistlichen Gesangbüchlein (Worms 1525)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1199385
aus dem Geistlichen Gesangbuchlein (Worms 1525)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1199316
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907933
He Never Said A Mumblin' Word, Satb., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1619256
For S.A.T.B. Chorus, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone Soloists, and Orchestra
for: Choir
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 1619107
Madrigal for Five Mixed Voices - Ssatb (A Cappella Or With Strings)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1619086
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1618864
S.A.T.B., A Cappella (With Hebrew and English Text)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1618337
S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626051
For S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B. Chorus, A Cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1626029
Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907225
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 989453
Zweite Stufe
for: Choir
Music score
Item no.: 1586385
from "The Tall Kentuckian"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1620038
Hob. Xxii: 2 S.A.T.B. and Organ, With Optional Cello Or Bass
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1619912
Enlarged Pew Edition
for: Choir
Item no.: 1346039
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539530
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539523
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539519
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1539309
Choralkantate
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 881542
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 887389
from The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648210
for Solo Voices, Choir and Orchestra
Mozarts Fragment completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr
New edition based on original sources
KV 626 / SmWV 105
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 683593
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 683369
auch als Nummer S143 lieferbar
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309760
für gemischten Chor a capella
Auftragswerk des Chores Karlsburg e. V.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 289854
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 294252
for: Mixed choir, strings
Set of parts
Item no.: 292034
No. 2 from Songs of Wonder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 890075
für 4- bis 7-stimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 382011
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 861832
Oper in 3 Akten
Libretto auf Deutsch
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 357094
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 409604
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 553226
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 576514
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 576504
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 576492
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 576478
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 566071
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 565991
for: Children's choir, piano
Lehrerheft
Item no.: 468842
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 456915
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 488813
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 496794
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 605585
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 601899
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 334743
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