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: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 293515
Book 1: Five Pop Songs for Today's Choirs
for: Mixed choir (SAT), piano
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 563293
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (Version in a minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 144612
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 478096
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351745
Symphony cantata
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 279250
for: Choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 679795
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 620763
for six part mixed choir a cappella
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 581564
for: Narrator, soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198784
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano/organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1192872
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 353999
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 797793
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813536
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 625746
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 818500
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 323688
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 194891
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 907414
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 617472
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 636329
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 275336
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 302738
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 408880
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 401792
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365991
from "Three Nocturnes"
Westminster Choir College Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 680307
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185231
Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 673155
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 389766
The essential about choral intonation – stay in tune!
for: Choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 493204
Songbook (with Reproducible Songsheets)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Songbook
Item no.: 337199
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (1–2 parts), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 601569
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
for: 2 soloists (SBar), narrator, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 113087
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 771423
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476962
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 149012
Eight songs for four-part vocal groups a capella
A Cappella Songbook 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 672757
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124485
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 583901
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 641720
for: Mixed youth choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 486727
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 166090
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143808
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 775871
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