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.
CG 65a
for: 3 soloists (TTB), male choir (TTB), organ
Score
Item no.: 423636
Eine deutsche Oper in zwei Aufzügen
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196723
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558777
Fragments Symphoniques
Urtext der Suiten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1612022
Pop-Arrangements zum EG für gem Chor und Instrumente
for: Choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 333173
'Coronation Mass'
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116578
archive copy
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 609825
for mixed chorus a cappella score
with piano part for rehearsal
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670070
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389149
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 369687
Oratorio
MWV A 14
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470975
Chorwerke mit Orgelbegleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 359630
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579886
Operetta in three actes
Allowed reprint (1906, Doblinger, Wien)
spiral-bound
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1203304
Matthaeus 27.46
Máté 27.46
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850986
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392137
Sieben Gedichte nach Federico Garcia Lorca
for: Mixed choir (SATB), guitar
Choir score
Item no.: 428581
Chor- und Begleitsätze zur gleichnamigen LP-Serie
Band 4
Die neuen religiösen Lieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142058
Operette in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128161
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 496059
für Männerchor mit Klavierbegleitung
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 293118
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 319921
musica baltica
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 632042
Singalong-CD Included
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 476877
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 857996
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1149288
Choir Rocks!
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 577845
Community Opera
for: Soloists, choir, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1042887
for Choir and Piano
for: Choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 681826
Oper in 3 Akten op. 7
for: Soloists, mixed choir, children's choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 112895
around 40 choral settings for SATB, some with piano accompaniment
editionchor
- Graduated prices on request -
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 682691
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806272
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 564609
for female gospel soloist, mixed chorus(SATB) and jazz ensemble
for: Solo voice (S/A), mixed choir (SATB), jazz ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 680899
Songbook for Male Vocal Ensemble
for: Male choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 649520
Reprint of the Marquerie Frères, Paris, 1838 edition
Dover Vocal Scores
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 314015
Cantata for the Feast of Ascension
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 621647
for: Mixed choir (3–6 parts) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 123428
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 603586
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 641076
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 621571
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 138161
for: Mixed choir; basso continuo ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 303691
Novello Ladies' Barbershop for female chorus a cappella score
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607346
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 6th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285540
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 137061
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 495380
for: Women's choir (SA), flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 564935
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