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.
Aus Schlesien
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725407
aus dem "Messias"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722938
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 647119
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948261
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 300994
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 300992
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach alten Liedern aus den "Piae Cantiones", 1582
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 214874
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602594
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941723
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942627
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 941079
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939859
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943200
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 939498
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937879
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936874
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936808
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936708
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936652
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934964
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 934343
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934166
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 491611
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 686244
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576551
for: Male choir
Item no.: 566069
for: Women's choir, piano
Item no.: 469089
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 278539
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 933448
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933392
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929169
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929133
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928250
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 928243
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 927890
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912133
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930192
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 930120
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 764428
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847538
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847424
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 696071
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 908248
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 908029
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907094
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764189
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763936
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763517
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