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.
La stella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237232
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 469409
Lasset die Kindlein zu mir kommen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 431187
Die Ehebrecherinnen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 431186
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428206
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor; the parish, orchestra, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 236292
MWV A 3
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 236254
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236215
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476283
Haake
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185391
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 474283
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 357971
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043937
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1122021
Masterpieces for mixed choir for mixed chorus a cappella hardcover
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1053339
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534852
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825846
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824282
Book/Enhanced CD (with reproducible pages and PDF song charts)
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 767721
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823361
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823333
from Footprints in the Sand
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823785
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534846
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534900
Oper/Operette
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906952
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 912802
for: Male choir
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 766153
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121498
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 377735
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1172586
An Easter Celebration of Grace Preview Pack
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 826393
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824267
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823998
Aus "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor"
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 308439
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123324
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123287
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122263
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122239
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122234
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825398
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825054
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 824896
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824497
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126580
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126576
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126514
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126495
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