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.
Weihnachtskantate
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237598
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812034
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813997
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167300
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 928246
Klassik
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 984433
Klassik
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 870065
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862974
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 888067
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891118
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169655
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169575
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 887371
A Musical Tweet for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809251
A Holiday Musical Infestation!
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804584
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330941
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556228
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985442
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169473
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 479168
Spanish Christmas Carol
for: Choir (2 parts); percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 774901
Marianische Antiphon des Stundengebets (Komplet)
Erstdruck
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 697511
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 392287
Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392285
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459734
Heft 1
Europäische Folklore in offenen Besetzungen
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2–3 parts), flexible ensemble; male voice ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 409319
International Christmas Songs for Choir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 631768
Sätze alter Meister
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 283402
Postum überlieferte Magnificat-Kompositionen, zweifelhafte Werke, Modelle, Register
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 17
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116273
Motette auf die Weihnacht
aus "Geistliche Chormusik" op. 12 (1934-1941)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114788
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 115685
Six Classic Christmas Favorites in a Jazzy Style
Cool Arrangements for SATB (Ensemble/Choir) and Piano/Keyboards
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 157904
für Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 157860
Kleine Adventskantate für gemischten Chor und Instrumente
dient auch als Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments [organ]
Score
Item no.: 173234
Heft 1
Europäische Folklore in offenen Besetzungen
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 171680
for: Choir (1 part), 2 descant recorders, piano
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 146441
für Sprecher, Soli, Kinderchor und kleines Orchester
Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren geeignet.
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 144974
Uns ist ein Kind geboren
zum 1. Weihnachtsfesttag
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 191911
für Soli, Chor, Orgel, Orchester oder Chor u. Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; soloists, orchestra ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 244437
Chorheft Nr. 12 - Kindlwiegen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204815
Chorheft Nr. 3 - Marienlieder
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204793
Chorheft Nr. 2 - Verkündigung und Magnificat
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204791
Spieloper in zwei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 100614
Choral Vivace
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584869
Choral Vivace
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584864
24 Sätze zeitgenössischer Komponisten
Chormusik für Kinder 1
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts)
Choir score
Item no.: 117192
Motette für die Advents– und Weihnachtszeit
Du König der Ehren, wir danken dir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 117132
Weihnachts-Choral
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 456357
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