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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115601
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823526
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825664
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 176396
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 472592
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 242641
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 371993
Christmas Cantata with 14 choral songs from Latin America
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 1552235
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 314174
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953733
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 624530
BWV Anh. 160
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 234243
Süddeutsche Kirchenmusik des Barock, Band XXXII
Erstdruck
for: 2 solists (SA), mixed choir (SABar), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 334675
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232503
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235986
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 576761
Evangelienmotette (Evangelienspruch) zum Neujahrstag
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115537
Evangelienmotette (Evangelienspruch) zum Weihnachtsfest
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115536
Je ein Satz für Frauenchor (SSA) und gemischten Chor (SATB)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115349
Geehl
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1009141
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1657042
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 375999
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364034
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 230013
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, bassoon, violone (orchestral part)
Item no.: 362095
für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 362092
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609743
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233064
Böhmische Hirtenmesse
Frei gedichteter Messtext alternativ in deutscher oder tschechischer Sprache
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237201
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933184
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934671
Melodie Popolari Elaborate Per Coro A 4 Voci Miste
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 990442
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 939203
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762502
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 907434
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764251
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764210
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762940
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762911
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 883957
aus op.8 für Mezzosopran, Chor ad.lib. und Orchester
for: Soloist (mezzo-soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1043505
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609004
Trilogie sacrée
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 241832
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts, Audio-CD
Item no.: 617064
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 656482
Motette
Violinstimme statt Viola 1
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559803
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 370571
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609551
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