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 (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471214
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462412
for: Soloist (tenor), male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 343672
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 321219
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859960
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315524
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965258
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 315067
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1212908
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321955
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802839
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802341
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802139
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801946
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801866
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 801865
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803804
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804749
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804324
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801303
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805304
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801012
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800813
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809398
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809372
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809336
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 809255
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809253
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808958
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 807804
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807697
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808212
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808067
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808019
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812034
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806871
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806644
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809957
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807209
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807116
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807002
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806142
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808623
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808568
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808525
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