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.
aus: In der Natur / V prìrode
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 374451
Ein Criminal in zwei Akten
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 372901
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 424245
Kyrie-Gloria-Messe (Lutherische Messe)
Entstehungszeit vermutlich späte Leipziger Jahre
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 424220
aus: Vier Chorlieder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423815
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423760
op. 44 Nr. 5
Partitur
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423668
op. 137 Nr. 11; aus: Zwölf geistliche Lieder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423605
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423313
op. 10 Nr. 3
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423308
op. 25 Nr. 5
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423298
aus: Responsorien für die Karwoche
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423267
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 556123
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 556119
Kantate zum Fest Mariae Heimsuchung (Leipziger Fassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 497393
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 496736
Graduale pro omne tempore
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 493515
Komische Oper in 4 Akten (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 492777
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 490434
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Item no.: 480202
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475483
aus dem ""Missarum liber primus" (Rom 1591)
eingerichtet von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Mixed choir, melodic instruments, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 475471
aus: Pop-Chorbuch zum EG: Morning has broken
Instrumentalstimmen-Set
for: Choir, band
Set of parts (Band)
Item no.: 424599
aus: Pop-Chorbuch zum EG: Morning has broken
Instrumentalstimmen-Set
for: Choir, band
Set of parts (Band)
Item no.: 424593
Polnisches Wiegenlied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424476
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424452
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 339199
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 295477
for: Women's choir (3 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 294640
for: Male choir
Item no.: 551059
Neapolitanisches Lied
“Das blaue Meer, die goldne Sonne”
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [mandolin orchestra]
Piano score
Item no.: 368865
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324738
Arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615898
Chamaeleon
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 151837
"Grazer Messe"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 616913
Kantate zum 13. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 673199
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Barockorchester Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
3 CDs
Item no.: 672041
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor, kleines Orchester und Orgel
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 671644
für Soli, gemischten Chor, 2 Oboen (Englischhörner), Streicher und Bc Hob. XXbis
Urtext
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 668502
für Soli, gemischten Chor, 2 Oboen (Englischhörner), Streicher und Bc Hob. XXbis
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 668236
Heiligmesse
Hob. XXII:10
Urtext
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 668203
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
auf der Grundlage des 1980 wiederaufgefundenen Autographs
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 667301
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 667166
Homilius: Kantaten 1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
CD
Item no.: 772189
Chorale cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; organ ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 770552
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Choir score
Item no.: 768586
Offertorium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 764586
für Kinderchor und Instrumente Partitur und Stimmen
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 697058
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