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), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804312
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804248
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804241
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804012
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804485
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815351
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815150
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812140
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811207
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811095
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807774
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807566
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807539
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807519
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808249
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809044
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809875
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809774
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809682
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810190
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321607
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317282
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317371
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 886776
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 323684
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 297308
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 648467
for: Mixed choir (SSATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 564267
for: Children's choir (SMezA), piano
Score
Item no.: 466353
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 209845
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 661347
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 673462
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 681738
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 911594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 145073
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 655659
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 340547
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 139685
Krippenspiel für Kindergarten– und Grundschulkinder
Klavierpartitur mit Aufführungshinweisen
for: Children's choir, narrator, actors, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663344
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 632995
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670933
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919075
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150102
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037965
Quintet Collection
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 919458
SATB and Piano, 4 Hands
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Choir score
Item no.: 1107939
Messe
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041071
String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1155311
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