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 a cappella
Item no.: 374691
for: Male choir
Item no.: 374314
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 343289
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 606189
Fröhliches Trinkliederpotpourri
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 372893
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 339725
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 348072
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 196829
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 195742
Sing
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204987
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 464344
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 391719
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428321
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203476
Text von Louis Fürnberg
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 123223
Text von Hans Möskenthin, Partitur und Orchestermaterial leihweise
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 123196
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 337079
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333475
Psalm 133
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 631094
Die besondere Gattung 9
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1015235
Cantata for Whit Monday
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 659526
Messe für gemischten Chor a cappella (2 Flöten, Kontrabass, Orgel ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 655353
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 564112
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 578371
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560656
Leichte Barockmusik aus Südamerika
für gem Chor und Instrumente
for: Mixed choir (3-4 Stimmen), Instrumente
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 576214
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 562350
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 561041
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 562457
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534872
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534864
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534860
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534844
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 103539
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 103533
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich~Dtoe 87
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 103479
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Item no.: 170992
for: Mixed choir, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 998483
for: Mixed choir, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 998487
for: Mixed choir, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 998495
for: Mixed choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 998545
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111252
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, CD
Item no.: 867523
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116004
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823513
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212502
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324768
Motette nach dem Volkslied aus Schwaben frei gestaltet
for: Choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 643853
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