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.
Jazz Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815817
Music drama in four acts
Vienna Version of 1781
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1651953
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058304
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121268
Traditional Irish
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 900003
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 907941
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 658353
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 832119
Margaret Rizza
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832168
Konzertwerk
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 903459
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1681950
für Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660345
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1058871
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815952
Georg Kreisler - Lieder und Chansons
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1544434
Georg Kreisler - Lieder und Chansons
Schott Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 691303
Ausgezeichnete Chormusik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659902
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148582
Love is a Black Lion
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1148668
SATB & 2 Trumpets
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919092
26 composizioni corali per coro a più voci
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 641657
7 Mottetti polifonici
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 989303
Sieben Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 989467
30 Kompositionen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 990027
Sieben Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 989657
Sechs Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 990144
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058790
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906051
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 885828
10 Masterwork Duets from the Baroque, Classic and Romantic Periods for Soprano and Another Voice
for: Choir
Item no.: 864228
Three Festival Choruses
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1078041
Hét ének két szólamra
for: Children's choir (SA)
Choir score
Item no.: 850971
Tre Igloo-Sange
op.69
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), timpani
Score
Item no.: 683841
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850809
für SSA und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609428
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 877135
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722965
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040350
Mash-up from Pitch Perfect
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653493
Southern Music
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Buch
Item no.: 927112
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326415
2 woodwinds in C
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1151590
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904189
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 887471
zum Gedenken an 500 Jahre Reformation
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1610806
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148809
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126480
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Music score
Item no.: 1203267
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