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.
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626136
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153653
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 911278
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907454
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111375
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126289
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116013
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320203
Trumpet
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150439
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906887
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905117
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1172548
für drei Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1681625
From The Music Of Aristophanes The Birds
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626044
Der Mensch hat nichts so eigen
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 643979
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904106
Polyphonic style, unaccompanied in the Phrygian Mode
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153828
Psalm 84
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Cello (Double bass/ Violone) [Basso continuo] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 773500
Zwei Chorlieder aus dem schlesischen Zyklus "Stimme der Heimat" (1942) ("Klopf, klopf die Rinde glatt / Ich weiß was")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869850
Epistelmotette zum 23. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 874025
Zwei Chorlieder aus dem schlesischen Zyklus "Stimme der Heimat" (1942) ("Auf den Mauern, die im Dickicht / Brennendes Herz")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 875158
Vier Psalmkompositioen
aus "Das Psalmbuch" (1948)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 876483
Heil`ge Nacht, o gieße
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 875873
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110459
Spruchmotette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 882438
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823484
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324515
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628319
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1152487
Love That Unites Me with the Greatest Love
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984851
für Chor und Orchester
Tenor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1634120
für Frauenchor
Chorpartitur
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1632884
for SATB choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1545531
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951977
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 853832
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 953823
African American Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157481
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1100666
Timotei, sinä heiluva heinä
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1148820
Song Of The Earth
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1149071
for: Soloist (mezzo-soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 900152
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1141086
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110171
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110063
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 778881
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 953598
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951933
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931485
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