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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 563255
Eine abenteuerliche Reise in fünf Liedern
Schulmusical
Der Kinderchor 9|
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 556209
Rounds and Catches
for: Mixed choir (3–5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 555999
Concert Festival Series
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 555996
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 555989
Hochzeitsliederbuch für Frauenchöre aus fünf Jahrhunderten
for: Women's choir, piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 446989
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 557669
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 557598
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 559421
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 132296
Märchen-Singspiel nach Wilhelm Hauf
Chamäleon - Musik für Kinder
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 138971
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445710
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445708
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 445694
"Herr Mozart war ein toller Kerl"
for: Children's choir [women's choir (SSAA)] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 128600
Nr. 1 Christus am Kreuz
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 106049
Der Ring des Nibelungen (WWV 86) Ein Bühnenfestspiel für 3 Tage und einen Vorabend (Bd. 10-13)
Band 13/III (mit kritischem Bericht) (with critical report)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 107170
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 106946
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 117623
18 ausgewählte Kompositionen vorwiegend für gemischten Chor, einige mit Instrumenten
musica sacra nova
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 117262
27 leichtere Sätze für Männerchor vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zu Gegenwart
for: Male choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117237
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 578309
from Can-Can
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 585662
Wie der Kaiser zu seinem Vogel kam
Set (Klavierpartitur+CD)
for: Children's choir, instruments
Piano score, CD
Item no.: 585476
in 10 volumes
for: Mixed choir a cappella
10 music scores (Urtext)
Item no.: 585434
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 583734
Ein unterhaltsames Herbstmusical für 7- bis 11-Jährige
Heft und AudioCD
Helbling Mini-Musicals (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Score, CD
Item no.: 583479
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 586082
Dt./Engl.
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 285592
Kantate Nr. 202 - Hochzeitskantate
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285581
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285533
Kantate BWV 129 – Trinitatisfest
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 285523
"Die Stadt ruht im Dunkel"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280479
Männerchor (TTBB) a cappella oder mit Blechbläsern (2 Trompeten, 2 Posaunen)
for: Male choir (TTBB); brass winds (2 trumpets, 2 trombones) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 280401
Sing & Play
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 280256
(aus Süddeutschland)
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280236
"Es war ein König in Thule"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280232
Chorpartitur
Sing & Play
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 204993
Nr. 6 aus: Sieben Hölderlin-Chöre GeWV 40
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204923
2. Nun sich der Tag geendetop. 93
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204521
Studien-Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 280953
(England)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280942
"Rosmarin und Salbeiblättlein" (Schwaben) / "Durch's Wiesental gang i jetzt na" (Bad.Schwarzwald)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280576
"Im Walde blüht der Seidelbast"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 280507
Volkslied aus Dalmatien
für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204375
5. Echo "Imitari melicos docta modos"
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204319
1. Früh noch am Tage
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204197
Sueddeutsche Orgel Und Chormusik Der Klassik Und Romantik 9
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 204021
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