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.
from "So Hallow'd Is The Time"
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1545907
"There's No Time"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280437
A red, red Rose
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1545049
Shule Aroon
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1545528
2. "Cradle Song"op. 29
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1582598
from "So Hallow'd Is The Time"
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1632903
Green Grow the Rashes, O
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1545130
Down by the Salley Gardens
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1545915
gemischter Chor und Orchester
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1632815
(Liber usualis) Motette
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1545859
from "So Hallow'd Is The Time"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1582539
"Réveillez vous cueurs endormis" - Chanson
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1545261
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1545601
4. "The Forsaken Lover"op. 29
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280453
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1545948
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644101
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644058
SATB CHOR UND STREI- CHER VIOLA 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, 2 violas, basso continuo
Single part viola 2
Item no.: 645018
op. 147
for: Choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 107007
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 194368
für Männerchor und Klavier zu 4 Händen Chorpartitur
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 644710
O vos omnes / Agnus Dei
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205002
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205000
"Lieb' Vöglein, vor Blüten sieht man dich kaum"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205004
Ein Singspiel in 7 Bildern und 6 Zwischenspielen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 273803
"Vom Kirchturm tönt der Glockenschlag" (Bretagne)
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205006
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205014
"Alles Schöne, alles Gute"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205012
Glückwunsch "Alles Schöne, alles Gute" / Sinnspruch "Schau im Leben"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205008
"O großer Ochse, göttlicher Pflugzieher"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205016
"Alles Schöne, alles Gute"
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205010
Choral
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 806489
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125545
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924025
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 894309
Choral Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 395438
Hardback, gilt blocking, blue
for: Choir
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 862914
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889231
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805576
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 211224
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319638
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934610
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932161
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934201
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933873
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933778
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933619
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929605
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