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.
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806871
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169473
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985442
Marianische Antiphon des Stundengebets (Komplet)
Erstdruck
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 697511
"O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden", Str. 9 und 10 (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730071
Motette für die Advents– und Weihnachtszeit
Du König der Ehren, wir danken dir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 117132
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549899
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374598
für Soli, Chor, Orgel, Orchester oder Chor u. Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; soloists, orchestra ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 244437
Mel.: Böhmen 15. Jahrhundert, Zürich um 1552 nach Ps. 31 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753400
(Jahreswende)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753377
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Score
Item no.: 445065
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 928246
Klassik
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 984433
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 479168
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 308250
Choral Vivace
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584869
Choral Vivace
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584864
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737816
Gottes Sohn ward heut' gebor'n
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725412
Aus Schlesien
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725407
aus dem "Messias"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722938
mit beiden Versionen des Magnificat
Lauda einen Ganzton, Magnificat eine kleine Terz abwärts transponiert
Musiche Varie – Musik des 17. Jahrhunderts
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 633323
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 647119
für gleiche Stimmen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 283463
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948261
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 494151
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 300994
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"op. 57
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 300992
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach alten Liedern aus den "Piae Cantiones", 1582
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 214874
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602594
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941723
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942627
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 941079
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939859
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943200
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 939498
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937879
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936874
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936808
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936708
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 936652
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934964
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 934343
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934166
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 801865
Puer Natus Pastoralmusik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309589
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377018
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