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.
Eine zauberhafte Reise in die Zeit der Lichterfeste, Advent und Weihnachten für Gesang und Klavier (Melodieinstrument in C ad libitum)
18 Lieder zum Zuhörern und Mitsingen
for: Children's choir [solo voice], piano [guitar/keyboard]; melody instrument (C) ad lib.
Songbook
Item no.: 656164
Faber Program Series
for: Women's choir (SSA/SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 552294
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596826
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297323
Brass Band
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594489
Frauenchor (Begleitung ad lib)
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 642625
"in nativitate Domini"
Orchestral version
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 610790
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490788
with Angels We Have Heard on High
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124115
Kantate.
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214212
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684984
für gem Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 378149
Offertory for Christmas
First edition
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 688078
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
aus: Musae Sioniae I, 1605
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 294638
Cantata for Whit Monday
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116721
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284227
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375005
Christmas Anthem for Satb Voices and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1617043
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374782
for: Choral
Item no.: 1372500
A Child Is Born In Bethlehem
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 685884
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Partitur
Item no.: 147122
für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor und Basso continuo
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 115678
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947136
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 137184
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763329
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763301
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 763260
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764424
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764414
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764235
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763932
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934374
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 933560
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 933547
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935255
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938931
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 938864
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936071
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937522
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934479
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 937088
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 937004
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936621
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933234
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928169
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