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.
3rd Day of Christmas [St John's Day]
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 371834
Weihnachtskantate für 2 Solostimmen oder 2-stimmigen Chor, 2 Violinen, Violoncello (Kontrabass) und Orgel (Cembalo)
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 176678
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 424779
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235824
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235819
Responsoria ad Matutinum in nativitate Domini MH 639
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 472590
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329037
Klassik
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 335363
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 335257
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236786
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236785
Weihnachtskantate
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230733
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 379621
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 379434
Medley
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807909
Medley Discovery Level 1
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807458
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804942
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 364216
für Sprecher, Soli, Kinderchor und kleines Orchester – Textblatt schwedisch
Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren geeignet.
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160604
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
10 Choir scores
Item no.: 1628876
Heft 2 (S 101-120)
Geistliche Chormusik Heftausgaben
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 283401
Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 1652817
aus: Salzburger Kirchengesangsbuch 1783
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1161172
(Split Trax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825456
Based on Matthew 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825521
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798950
Choral
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 812566
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812453
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806782
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 364215
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122632
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122575
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 827051
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323767
Jeg Er Sa Glad Hver Julekveld
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123532
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122562
Mark Foster
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123296
Vier- bis sechsstimmige Chöre alter Meister
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 877580
A Christmas Jubilee
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122081
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825410
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126271
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552092
Kantate
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1019907
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169670
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003382
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805665
(CD 10-Pak)
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1656900
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 893207
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