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: Women's choir (SA), organ
Item no.: 1660024
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 859033
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152414
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039500
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150034
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1156354
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815931
Songs of Transformation and Peace
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1159051
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122143
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919450
Performance CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1059179
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1155352
S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626128
Minnelied Op. 44/1
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040772
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918105
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126784
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153118
Trumpet & Timpani Parts
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919024
Volume 1: SATB
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1151636
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041316
Old Things Are Done Away
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1077714
Umwelt-Kantate
for: Youth choir (one voice), instruments
Score
Item no.: 1023493
from Trolls
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815911
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1155163
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917806
2-4 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855576
GIA Celebration Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1154795
based on Mary's Little Boy Child
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919684
General Anthem for Satb Voices and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1617039
Morning, Evening and Night Prayer
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832123
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1656864
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123425
SAB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856259
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158050
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 876555
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1037809
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152930
4 Horns in F and Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1155051
A musical play for infants/lower juniors
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832064
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125576
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126257
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124909
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040992
GIA Hymnals
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158115
Glory Sound Celebration
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123303
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918158
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1095114
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1159629
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