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.
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Flute (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445258
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445096
Mitternachtsmesse zu Weihnachten
Urtext-Ausgabe – Musique sacrée française
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678034
Mitternachtsmesse zu Weihnachten
Urtext-Ausgabe – Musique sacrée française
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678029
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Bassoon 1
Item no.: 237612
"in nativitate Domini"
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237551
"in nativitate Domini"
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237549
"in nativitate Domini"
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237548
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235820
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235662
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234332
English traditional Carol
Strings 4-4-3-2-1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single parts Strings
Item no.: 663873
SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762599
SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762528
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 841926
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936667
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936457
A Christmas Musical for Children
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 849978
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932385
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932350
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910132
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907198
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 388212
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388165
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946851
für SATB, Orchester (Fl, 2 Klar [B], 2 Hr [G], 2 Trp [B], Pk, Streicher) und Orgel oder mit Orgel
allein
enthält beide Fassungen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Single part Organ
Item no.: 311061
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1178770
From Joy To The World
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 999551
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126420
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125746
A Celtic Christmas Celebration
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125363
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124273
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1123999
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825497
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123521
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122364
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823762
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843821
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843548
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843520
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845852
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844925
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 844591
Gentry Publications
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002181
Fred Bock Publications
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003457
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 801890
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813221
Choral
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 807737
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