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.
für vierstimmigen Frauenchor mit Klavierbegleitung (ad libitum)
op. 44 - Partitur
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 170521
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 157861
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261841
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261833
for: Male choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261832
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 156837
123 meist vierstimmige Liedsätze von anonymen und 20 bekannten Meistern des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 11
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 765659
Dramma giocoso in two acts
New Mozart Edition (NMA). II/5/17
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765420
"As the Hart Pants"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 637950
Zehn Lieder gegen den Krieg
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 214636
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 117623
Chormusik des 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117247
27 leichtere Sätze für Männerchor vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zu Gegenwart
for: Male choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117237
Chormusik des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. 21 Sätze für Chor, drei- bis fünfstimmig
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117223
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116959
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116958
Hamburger Motettenbuch 2
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 114977
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 114661
50 Choralsätze zum Kirchernjahr (46 Melodien)
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 116178
Messen des Druckes Paris 1577
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 4
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115888
7 Kompositionen aus wiedergefundenen Drucken 1559-1588
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 1
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115886
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 1 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 115782
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 3
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115714
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115342
auf Worte von Goethe, Claudius und Koerppen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486094
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1659237
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121345
Oratorio in three parts in the arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New Mozart Edition (NMA). X/28/1,2
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 339137
Choralkantate Nr. 2 zum Totenfest
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295275
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 293745
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 304223
Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392250
Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392234
Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn' und Schild
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392210
Oratorium
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392180
Choral Programme Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 474402
Tragédie (Drame-héroique) in four acts
Urtext edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444422
for: Choir, organ
Chorpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 879684
Vorschlag zur Revision von J.C. Haeffners Choralbuch (Faksimiles). Anhang: 3 Choräle mit Orchester (Faksimiles)/ Anlage: Berwalds Kommentare zu seiner Choralrevision
Franz Berwald. Sämtliche Werke 23
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Faksimile
Item no.: 879598
Urtext based on the Complete Edition “Jean Sibelius Works”
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 777007
Opera in three acts HWV 40
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) II/39
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 745185
Eine deutsche Oper in zwei Aufzügen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NMA) II/5/19
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
Item no.: 762459
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 625459
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1262091
Das Arbeitsbuch für die lebendige Vocal-Pop-Performance
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score with lyrics and stage direction
Item no.: 663060
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 612936
9 Settings based on Spanish-Jewish Folk Songs
for: Mixed choir; percussion ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 579863
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314916
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