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: School choir
Students book
Item no.: 796617
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Playback-CD (with parts to print yourself)
Item no.: 602820
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 691813
Traditional Scottish Folk Song
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745472
(from Les Misérables)
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745377
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777418
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
20 choir scores
Item no.: 772020
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 685302
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 241972
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484992
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 323199
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 485749
for: 2 soloists (boy soprano, mezzo-soprano), mixed choir (SATB), trumpet, string orchestra, latin percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1101622
"Dir gehört mein Herz" aus dem Musical "Tarzan"
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 671825
Unison song. Words by Caryl Brahms
for: Voice [choir (one voice)], piano
Music score
Item no.: 900536
The Ives Collection
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
2 Scores
Item no.: 268952
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 490764
Oper in 3 Akten
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198783
Oper in einem Akt (sieben Szenen)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 177463
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 470651
The complete songbook
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 488109
Cantata for Palm Sunday and the feast of the Annunciation Cantata for Palm Sunday and the feast of the Annunciation
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 627276
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 495382
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 603206
for SATB choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur with piano line for rehearsal only
Item no.: 727183
Ten easy three part a capella arrangements of classic hits
for: Women's choir (SSA) [mixed choir (SAT)] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 217570
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 173991
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 395519
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586731
Selections for mixed chorus and piano, score (en)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 414564
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 321259
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 327698
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602255
from the opera "Der Freischütz"
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 317528
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 471534
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 672621
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (1–2 parts), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 601309
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 641631
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 474303
Three sacred songs and fugue
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279260
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 423286
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 145892
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 292001
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 361208
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777395
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 797759
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 369690
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 697175
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