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: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909299
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341541
for: Male choir, piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1078061
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092254
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117119
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097095
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 960089
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915572
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085958
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155948
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960544
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097722
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325453
für gemischten Chor (SAM/SATB), Gemeinde, Streicher und Orgel
Violoncello/Kontrabass
for: Mixed choir (SATB), parish, orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685050
Hinshaw Concert
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 901724
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212494
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097261
Music for Christmas and Wintertide
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1155377
Contemporary Christmas Madrigal
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096937
for: Women's choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 644609
Soli für Sopran und Tenor
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 669542
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116085
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959701
for: Choir (1 part), 2 descant recorders, piano
Single part descant recorder
Item no.: 1666777
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097183
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097186
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915152
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097430
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 294221
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 304089
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 300671
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 579725
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 608037
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 145445
Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (revidiert 2017)
komplettes Orchestermaterial
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 679029
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 332065
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 331798
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 291099
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455798
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 562585
for: Male choir
Item no.: 562599
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 210168
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 491418
Weihnacht In Der Welt 9
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 377489
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 269104
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 203475
Silesia Cantat 26
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 164333
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 479659
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