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 (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761202
O Come, All Ye Faithful
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760319
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760310
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 738905
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738795
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740371
Eine Folge volkstümlicher Weihnachtslieder
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746952
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 746707
(Jahreswende)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744548
Aus Franken (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744547
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737816
2. Dorma, dorma, o bambin (Schweiz)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742406
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667273
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1701425
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 494151
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 475189
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 663801
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 649924
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 283402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 157904
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309589
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965649
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 336853
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256596
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1167732
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167704
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1167641
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1167602
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167552
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167447
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811952
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811792
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1001956
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897262
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002072
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 317885
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317682
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167300
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965660
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965612
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965611
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965478
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965376
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965369
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965294
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