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: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1173545
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1172492
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1171466
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1177622
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114253
Oper in vier Akten op. 29
Mit Krit. Kommentar in Russisch und Englisch sowie dem Faksimile des Entwurfs
Schostakowitsch – Neue Gesamtausgabe 53
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 767523
for: Male choir
Item no.: 304091
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423201
Chiemsee-Messe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, 2 clarinos (C), timpani, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 377131
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 645423
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644685
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 776942
Instrument 2 (Alto)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Violin 2 [Oboe 2] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234216
Version Hellmann/Glöckner
Edition published in cooperation with the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, reconstructed version (2001)
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 234123
Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233910
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (version in g minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233817
Kantate zum 22. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233750
Kantate zum 7. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233641
B minor BWV 103
Cantata for the Sunday of Jubilate
for: 2 soloists (AT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233592
D 739
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237998
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237922
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237921
Graduale in C
– Graduated price on demand –
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 237898
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 117581
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 139770
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931186
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923698
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915612
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913294
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910860
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910586
Hell, wie von Blitzen / Den svitá bleskem
for: Choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 117815
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 695404
Komische Kantate
for: Voice (baritone), children's choir (SA), strings, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 216911
Congratulatory Cantata for the Birthday of Duke Christian of Saxony-Weißenfels and of Duke Ernst August of Saxony-Weimar
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 473482
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003315
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003298
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003262
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003175
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003053
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002882
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002715
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002663
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002627
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002498
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1002418
Accompaniment CD
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1002417
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002315
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