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.
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890046
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890039
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889822
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889409
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889294
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889040
for: 2 soloists (SS), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 889036
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 888994
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 888796
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 888423
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 887778
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 887017
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 886434
"Sparrow Mass"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116808
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 867233
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 866908
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 780822
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 691660
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 687680
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679406
Come over the Meadow
French Traditional
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 669230
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 668219
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 660098
Der beliebte Schlager aus dem Jahr 1943
arrangiert für Männerchor (vierstimmig) und Klavier
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 657901
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 473572
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471544
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471532
Oxford Upper-Voice Music
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471527
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 465839
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460543
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 446794
Oxford Choral Composers
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432472
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 373875
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 777221
aus: Romanzen und Balladen II
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 212552
Level 1 Mixed, Part-Learning CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815417
SSA
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556231
Accompaniment CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805763
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807936
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807868
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807650
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807486
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807140
World Music Drumming
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806956
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806595
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 806052
Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805951
In This World of Ordinary People
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805130
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