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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 472331
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 472132
Zu Band XI/2 der Hugo Wolf Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 465866
Osterkantate
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 464756
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476082
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 475991
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Set of parts
Item no.: 470362
Ausgabe enthält auch die optionale Orgelstimme
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 468444
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 469352
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 462530
Motette
aus "Israelsbrünnlein"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115524
Azione teatrale per musica in drei Akten von Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Wiener Fassung von 1762
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Sämtliche Werke I/1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115362
Motette
aus "Cantiones sacrae" (1625)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115194
aus "Mörike-Chorliederbuch" op. 19
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115042
Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi nach dem Evangelisten St. Lukas
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB)
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 114774
8 favorites arranged for 4-part mixed voices
Professionally recorded choir
Pick your part & sing along
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 583119
Vol. 2: 100 Little Marches
Choral Method
for: Choir (one voice) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 552358
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir book
Item no.: 554413
Hymnus für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111437
Comedian Harmonists a cappella für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 482234
Oratorium Wtq 240
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 491499
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 490703
für gemischten CHor (SATB) Orchester und Orgel
oder Orgel allein
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 460075
Neue Kärntnerlieder des St. Veiter Kreises für gemischten Gesang, Männerchor und Frauenchor.
for: Mixed choir [women's choir/male choir] (4 voices)
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 433277
Drei Chorlieder
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 432480
Klassik
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 456976
"Wem Gott will rechte Gunst erweisen"op. 75/1
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 490555
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 461424
Fassung für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Streichorchester (2005) oder Orgel (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 445303
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 443111
für Soli, Chor, 2 Trompeten oder Hörner und Pauken ad lib., 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
aus den Vesperae solennes de Dominica op. 9
kritisch revidierte Neuausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 434075
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 602316
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 559083
mit Klavier
Wenn ich durch Busch und Zweig
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 558609
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 578445
nach Texten von Maurice Maeterlinck
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 606512
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 605984
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 605981
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 605906
(Hymne an die Zukunft)
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 604486
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1669880
Ritual Music and Motets
Early English Church Music 33
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 603908
Tragödie in einem Aufzug von Hugo von Hofmannsthal op. 58
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 100550
Ein Singgedicht in einem Akt von Ernst von Wolzogen op. 50
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 100512
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Study score
Item no.: 103027
Denkmaeler Der Tonkunst In Oesterreich~Dtoe 94/95
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 103486
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 492432
Steinzeitlieder und Höhlensongs
8 Höhlensongs mit Gitarrenakkorden
Kinderliedersammlung
for: Children's choir (1–3 voices), guitar [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 368074
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