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.
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918914
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 898659
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 900635
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 855202
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951237
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085783
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 900447
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856042
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150399
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1041012
Rhythm Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 919035
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1037453
Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815826
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1040637
Dir, Jesu, Gottes Sohn
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039607
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610359
Two-Part Mixed
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856208
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342937
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 920534
3. Pavane "Belle qui tiens ma vie"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742430
Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 904401
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 953689
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154707
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1038701
The Rose
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341965
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126497
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 908925
Brass Parts: Conductor's Score, 2 B-flat Trumpets, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba & Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 856595
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857015
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 853895
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319780
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898080
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 880751
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057698
3 octavea handbells or handchimes
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1160294
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856964
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1037691
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100934
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 879578
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950195
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1108010
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918308
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918760
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856837
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 857261
GIA Celebration Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152626
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725852
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950168
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