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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 864685
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 878308
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878242
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878171
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877978
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877584
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 293310
Oxford Choral Classics
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 345095
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 331463
Series 3
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 327902
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 160196
Of one that is so fair and bright
New Horizons
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 150106
Vocal score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 148958
for SATB unaccompanied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 648420
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 648079
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 642481
Songbird
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 637659
Church Music Society publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628378
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628322
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628267
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628266
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628213
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 628166
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628050
9 anthems for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 620375
SA, SATB, piano, and opt. timps
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 620368
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 586901
Oxford Chilcott
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 565345
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 561780
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 486293
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 485915
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 485902
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 920217
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920184
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894502
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894364
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894286
Oxford Music from Canada
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894206
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 893989
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893910
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893821
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893747
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893603
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893527
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893486
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 893442
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 892802
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892758
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