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: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289377
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289372
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1289834
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 443360
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1289380
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 483669
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 297971
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 475189
aus dem Musical "Notre-Dame de Paris"
for: Voice [mixed choir (SATB) / solo wind instrument / 4 brass winds], concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 587594
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Sleigh Bells [or Tambourine] & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596819
Brass Band
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594502
Weihnachtsoratorium in zwei Teilen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 635715
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string quartet; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 591008
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Glockenspiel & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir, 4 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590976
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Percussions & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590924
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Tambourine & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590891
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Tambourine & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590887
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592579
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1215883
Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Sleigh Bells [or Tambourine] & Drum Set optional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 590808
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799688
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799993
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801012
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800813
from A Little Princess
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802341
Weihnachtliche Motette für achtstimmigen Doppelchor.
Für gemischten Chor, Blockflöten, Violen da Gamba oder andere Instrumente.
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1629067
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 847827
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847424
Variations
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811792
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806871
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801303
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167447
from White Christmas
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800556
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811952
für 6-stimmigen Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 381401
Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 181393
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002072
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167704
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167552
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799818
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317682
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Score
Item no.: 445065
Weihnachtskantate
for: 2 voices (SS) [female choir (SS)/mixed choir (SSB)], 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 692762
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256596
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 805611
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462412
(For unto us a child is born)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471214
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460520
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