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.
aus Finlandia op. 26
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 674177
Ricordi Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389027
Gospel
for: Choir (2 voices), piano [keyboard, guitar]
Score
Item no.: 5002
Eight songs for four-part vocal groups a capella
A Cappella Songbook 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 672757
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
The essential about choral intonation – stay in tune!
for: Choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 493204
ossia La Bontà in Trionfo
Dramma giocoso
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 374733
für Sopran solo, gemischten Chor und Bigband
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), big band
Score
Item no.: 328161
Songbook (with Reproducible Songsheets)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Songbook
Item no.: 337199
Sing Out!
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 767765
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (1–2 parts), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 601569
für Kinderchor/Frauenchor und Klavier
Aus dem Film "Die Kinder des Mathieu" (Les Choristes)
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 555326
for: 2 soloists (SBar), narrator, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 113087
Oper in 3 Akten
Neue Studienpartituren-Reihe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 166090
for: Mixed youth choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 486727
for tenor, mixed chorus a cappella
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 775871
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 771423
from "Sister Act 2 – Back In The Habit"
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 467073
King's Singers Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 348962
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124485
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
Score
Item no.: 816845
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 143808
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 262388
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 491348
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476962
8 songs for upper voices
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 692550
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 641720
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489920
VOCES8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697259
18 exercises for mixed chorus (SATB)
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music lesson book
Item no.: 337552
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [women's choir (SSA)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 428797
für Frauenchor und Klavier
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471993
Choral Vivace
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1666818
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 388444
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1192485
for unaccompanied chorus SSAATBB
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 635762
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985441
Five Pop Songs for Today's Choirs
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 691813
(Choral Selections)
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777418
op. 89
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1557187
Sequential Sight-Reading in the Choral Classroom
Student Edition
for: School choir
Students book
Item no.: 796617
für gemischten Chor a cappella (2007)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330775
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101249
Conte des Fées par Henri Cain (d'après Perrault)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 245931
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235743
Traditional Scottish Folk Song
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745472
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 685302
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