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.
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167455
A Tenebrae Service
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965593
(Medley)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965559
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965491
A Cantata for Passiontide
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965488
Brookfield Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965459
Brookfield Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965374
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965299
Medley of Hits by the Beatles
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799465
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798733
Accompaniment CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805763
Let's All Sing
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 550056
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534589
The Music of Harold Arlen in Concert
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813513
with America the Beautiful
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810375
Medley
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809723
from Keble Missa Brevis
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808903
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807486
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 806052
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804676
Choral Collection
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803721
Voices Rising
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802992
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 765705
Bearbeitung für Kammerorchester (arr. Homolka)
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1340491
Serenata in 3 parts
Halle Handel Edition (HHA) II/30
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868841
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 868797
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850799
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850715
Két leánykar
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850318
Regi mesterek vegyeskarai 12
for: Mixed choir (3 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 303650
"Ha, welch ein ewiges Laufen und Rennen"
Opernchor-Bibliothek - Berühmte Opernchöre
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 154693
exempla nova 334
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 160483
Schott Kammerchor
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183712
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 185935
Chorerzählung nach Worten des Alten Testaments
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), organ
Score
Item no.: 177723
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 180690
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1270031
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 196476
musica sacra nova
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Spielpartitur
Item no.: 116852
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 18
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116269
Handschriftlich überlieferte Messen IV. Anhang, Fragmente, Modelle, Register
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 12
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116267
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 121945
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 121935
Nr. 1; aus: Israelsbrünnlein. Geistliche Madrigale
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 131299
CW E 4
Chorpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 234459
for: Male choir
[deutsch, englisch, slowensich]
Item no.: 465135
Kantate zum Sonntag Quasimodogeniti
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 233123
Kantate zum 19. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 232752
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