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.
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105401
From "Eight Partsongs" Op. 119
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 929374
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 823305
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1584409
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105408
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101436
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 981335
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103307
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126189
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 931933
Weltlich
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1584423
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103149
Enoch Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962203
for: Choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 912494
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105442
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105472
Ea328
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105415
POD
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859296
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816694
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677619
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1059351
Volume 2
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1149400
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962182
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1192439
from Turning Red
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633214
A Resurrection Introit
for: Mixed choir (SATB), handbells
Choir score
Item no.: 1556750
Musical–Medley
Set von 10 Chorpartituren
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
10 scores
Item no.: 1560153
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1634916
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121106
Gospelsong (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730173
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103286
Broadway Choral Series
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 1664805
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1634317
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343073
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101315
Level A Method Book
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1124689
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1121107
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 907780
Lullaby
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760225
Nr 2 und 3 aus: Spirit Songs. Five arrangements for choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 677188
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931810
3-Part Mixed, Opt. Solos, and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1643207
Hinshaw Music
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1634864
Voices Together
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533128
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1091678
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1551245
– nur in Verbindung mit den Chorstimmen –
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 1687919
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984531
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