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.
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764025
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769849
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769788
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769187
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769017
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 768867
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768848
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 744919
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 697796
VideoTrax DVD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir
DVD (video)
Item no.: 697432
SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir
Play-along CD 1
Item no.: 697431
Latin
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 697318
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 697179
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 696862
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 696677
from "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach"
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745899
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TTB), piano; double bass, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745873
aus: Fünf Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 338038
Begleit-CD
for: Youth choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 638228
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 612102
für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424461
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576473
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 559478
Version for soprano or tenor solo, mixed choir, string quintett and organ
Musique sacrée française
for: Solo voice (S/T), mixed choir (SATB), string quintet, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 687465
Totengesang der Frauen und Mädchen
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 423960
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 479079
Potpourri goldener Evergreens von Walter Kollo, Peter Kreuder, Will Meisel und Gerhard Winkler
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 216552
Kinderkantate
for: Children's choir, piano, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1659708
aus: Psalmen Davids
Psalmkonzert
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668475
from the film Spectre
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800970
Oxford Choral Classics
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1668456
Western Traditional
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1059049
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801754
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902445
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902189
Hinshaw Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058875
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1058659
Hinshaw Secular
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058399
Shawnee Sacred
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126704
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125043
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124921
New York Voices Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124144
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123715
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123713
from A Time for Alleluia!
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123661
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126844
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126609
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126556
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