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: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 847702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762947
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762508
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Play-along CD 1
Item no.: 744860
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1189996
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764209
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764197
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843577
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 628319
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 490070
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 936793
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911884
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 900495
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931710
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 930844
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 939534
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844078
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 893207
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965620
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1149172
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003382
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003372
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001484
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105730
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1002345
"Es will das Licht des Tages scheiden"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733371
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 195225
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Part 2 in C, 8va
Item no.: 672226
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 746709
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742443
"Das Volk, das im Finstern wandelt" (Jesaja 9)
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 746948
Weihnachtslied aus Slowenien
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746846
3. Gloria (Polen)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746817
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 335363
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 876824
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807474
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160604
for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 354650
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203418
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202762
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204565
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Soprano/Alto
Item no.: 202331
FUER SOLI, CHOR UND ORCHESTER, PARTITUR
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Partitur
Item no.: 644623
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325525
Neue Weihnachtslieder Nwl 503
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 213943
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097313
GIA Christmas
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150418
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