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.
Lass Dich Nur Nichts Nicht Dauren
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154479
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110334
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914125
Steig´in den Keller
Weinlied im Volkston
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 681189
Musikalisches Märchen für Sprecher, Chor und Orchester
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Horn (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1660486
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 1110739
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 627061
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 888367
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043914
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924061
für gem Chor und Klavier Partitur
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 645745
Französisches Volkslied
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647122
Missa Sti. Josephi
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 638185
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 949036
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111819
2 C Instruments
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1155694
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100344
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341670
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330303
13. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Klavierauszug vokal, Digitalartikel (AODP)
Item no.: 1640209
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043882
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924115
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155100
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1159204
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1156558
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324390
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924277
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532533
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 998608
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342885
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 301159
Steuermann, laß die Wacht – aus der Oper "Der fliegende Holländer"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 301145
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 623953
Alte + Neue Chormusik 2
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 314352
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317665
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 555192
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA), piano
Item no.: 332098
for: Women's choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 331285
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 622157
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 327881
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 327438
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 330815
for: Male choir
Item no.: 329368
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 582213
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364065
for: Male choir
Item no.: 362702
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 492420
for: Choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 103693
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