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); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910851
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910455
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909863
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 909713
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909692
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929662
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 929256
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 929102
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 929023
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 928932
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 905037
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904104
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 903059
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 900053
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 898864
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 898580
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 898296
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908611
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908213
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 907057
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906721
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 848451
for: Choir
CD-ROM
Item no.: 887938
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 849269
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942642
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 942358
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940097
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 847709
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 580521
Cantata for the 12th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233829
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210853
Non nobis Domine / Nicht unserm Namen, Herr
for: 3 soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235281
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 462472
Keltische Messe nach geistlichen Texten aus Irland und Schotland für Chor und Folk-Band
for: Mixed choir (SATB), Folk Band (violin, flute, harp, wheel fiddle, guitar, cello, drum)
Part Flute/Violin
Item no.: 606246
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560604
KV 275 (272b)
Einzelstimme Vl. 1
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236875
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1186180
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1185744
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1186729
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 883566
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1014937
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1178771
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1178760
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1011802
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843990
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