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.
4. Trooper's Drinking Song - Landsknechtstrinklied
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737971
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734541
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 739063
Classic meets Jazz 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 739048
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732291
Distinguished Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 731784
(16. Jh.)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733443
Responsorium zur Vesper am 1. Advent (Sacharja 14,5-6; Judas 14)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734125
Liederkreis aus "O Mensch, gib acht"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743829
Motets for four-part men's choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 743402
2. Frauenklage "Nun heißen sie mich"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747122
2. Siehst du den Stern
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747001
1. Lobe den Herren
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746962
"Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt"
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 746954
1. Lebenslauf / 2. Gebet für die Unbelehrbaren
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746920
"Fölkelt már a csillag" - "Schon aufgegangen die Sterne sind"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746913
(Lochheimer Liederbuch)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746844
"Lasst uns singen und fröhlich sein"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742676
2. Das Mädchen wollt' ein Freier haben (Ostpreußen)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742672
3. Of Household Rule - Vom Hausregiment
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur mit unterlegter Klavierstimme
Item no.: 742549
"Gewaltig endet so das Jahr"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742459
Nr. 1 Lied des Vogelstellers
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742431
Trauungschoräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742403
"Guten Morgen deinem Hause"
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742380
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741151
Halleluja-Ruf: GL 176,2 ö
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741118
Volksweise aus dem 18. Jh.
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747905
Wanderlied aus Äppelbo
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747896
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747657
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 757827
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108,25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755730
Offertorim: 3. Sonntag nach Erscheinung, Gründonnerstag, Kreuzauffindung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755694
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755506
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1024926
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793497
Acht Chorlieder für Männerchor (TTBB) a cappella nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 756834
Herrn Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller zugeeignet
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756492
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756490
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 756181
Text und Melodie trad. schwedisch (19. Jh.) Deutsche Übersetzung seit 1908 tradiert
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756139
Text und Melodie trad. (19. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756136
Text und Melodie trad. (18. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756135
Kleine Partita für dreistimmigen Chor
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756117
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756116
1. O mistress mine - 2. Hey, Robin, jolly Robin
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782697
Texte aus dem Toskanischen nach Ferdinand Gregorovius
for: 3 voices [women's choir] (SMezA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 782543
Lieder und Chansons von Georg Kreisler in Bearbeitungen für Männerchor und Klavier
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 759506
Tudor Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782078
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