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.
Three sacred songs and fugue
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279260
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677221
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 471534
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 697175
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 682433
Volume 2
Urtext – Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB) (partial with soloist, piano)
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 611533
Choralia
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 131709
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 953332
VOCES8 Singles Series
for: Solo voice (Bass), mixed choir (SSATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1013019
VOCES8 Singles Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1012994
Movement II from "The Lost Birds"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 1557126
Cantata for the inauguration of the town council in Mühlhausen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233182
(To the stars...)
State motto of Kansas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746387
Kommt, eilet und laufet
Parodie der weltlichen Kantate "Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen" BWV 249a
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 349754
Cantata for the feast of John the Baptist
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 673189
Entstanden zwischen 1965 und 1970 für verschiedene Schauspiel- und Zeichentrickfilme
in estnischen Kinderzimmern ein Klassiker
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 649498
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben · Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233890
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA/SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 216114
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 370336
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 328572
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 635209
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 136693
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423067
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423010
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 812217
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 432477
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 341359
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 885575
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 359631
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 775382
for: Mixed choir (SAT), piano
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 636472
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Choir score
Item no.: 187580
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695535
Mit Klavierbegleitung zu Übungszwecken
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 327919
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260620
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 661154
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 120510
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 775378
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 311651
for: Children's choir (one voice), mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ/ orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 364144
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1169977
European Choral Music of the 19th Century
for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 669167
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra, piano]
Organ score
Item no.: 687237
"Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir"
Cantata for a penitential service (Version in a minor)
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683036
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1555996
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486949
27 Jazz-Kanons im Swing- oder Latin-Groove
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 393222
für Sopran solo, gemischten Chor und Bigband
Die Chorpartitur enthält auch den Solo-Sopran
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), big band
Choir score
Item no.: 327429
There is a separate Stretta website for the country Worldwide. If your order is to be delivered to this country, you can switch, so that delivery times and shipping conditions are displayed correctly. Your shopping cart and your customer account will remain the same.
switch to Stretta Music Worldwidestay on Stretta Music Denmark