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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330312
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675707
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092136
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1157800
GIA Christmas
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1149705
String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1158663
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097532
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096926
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092142
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916542
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100762
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 824804
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915763
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152654
Donna Maria
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 583489
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 610402
for: Women's choir (SA), strings, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 581171
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 246291
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 332344
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341528
2 C Instruments
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156979
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126416
LKM Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 870099
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341513
Instrument Set
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156306
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156596
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960404
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 296461
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160278
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121524
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097004
Ausgabe in D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 669515
per il solenne mattutino nella notte del Santissimo Natale, Pian & Forte Vol. 148
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1163514
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1157893
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931223
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121501
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 341633
Bremer Chorblaetter 18
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 335093
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 557672
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 489140
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 314598
for: Choir
STIMMEN
Item no.: 307630
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308909
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 914343
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903867
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150527
Sing
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280252
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324579
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