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
Choir score
Item no.: 333804
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 337079
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333477
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333475
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 430916
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 429691
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 137615
for: Male choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 134112
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455847
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 336808
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 335340
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 335327
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 284195
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 604576
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 608035
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 609251
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 119277
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 609887
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607815
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 606784
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 606782
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 332777
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907513
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906271
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960460
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960379
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959974
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959947
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959515
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 978793
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 926224
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923605
Folk aus Osteuropa
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916855
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 914911
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914236
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911941
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
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for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
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Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938077
Das Lied des kirchlichen Neubeginns
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1549357
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097161
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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Choral–Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
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