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.
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802525
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802468
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 802458
Three Call and Response Songs
for: Women's choir (3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802374
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802363
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802295
Festival Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802278
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802229
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802124
from The Sing-Off
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802036
from Porgy and Bess
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801990
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801958
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801924
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801894
from Cinderella
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801855
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801824
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir (3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801773
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801703
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801685
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801648
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801577
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801467
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801279
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801164
(from Annie) Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800699
ALB
For SAB Choir, Piano as arranged by Ed Lojeski.
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 194685
Neil Diamond
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 296956
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 180690
Psalm 100 for 2-part chorus and piano
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 622945
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 660856
from Annie Get Your Gun
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 432357
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 489752
from Wonderful Town
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 586327
SAM-Klang
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532685
SAM-Klang
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532673
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1026956
Contemporary Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1690426
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 877683
from Frozen Fever
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 641679
Dramatic Oratorio Or Opera In One Cathartic Act For S.A.T.B. Chorus, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor, and Baritone Soloists, and Orchestra
for: Choir
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 483757
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777539
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 686971
from Sweet Charity
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800391
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 203075
aus: Fünf Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 338038
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805020
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 475480
for: Women's choir (SS), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 486955
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