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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1202189
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722966
Dialogo a 6 voci
(1683)
for: 6 soloists (SSSATB), mixed choir (SSSATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1559497
(2nd National Choral Composition Competition EdizioniCorali.it - Cat. Speciale ‘La Montagna’)
for: Male choir
Music score
Item no.: 1559364
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168319
from Songs of Wisdom Op. 14
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901209
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168743
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965300
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927118
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984771
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 964987
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167561
Swiss Composers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1023292
Southern Music
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 923449
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167359
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1327033
LKM Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 885209
Pavane Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168511
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1001658
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002184
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 333434
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1326952
Pavane Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168808
A Psalm of Creation
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965312
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985375
Peace
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326275
(The Tabernacle of God)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965690
Oratorium für Sprecher, vierstimmig gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 684350
A Service of Lessons and Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965674
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167668
with Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965338
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1327043
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330989
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965675
Brookfield Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 965298
(1996)
for: Choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 778754
De Haske Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 884865
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 934786
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169631
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1169051
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168930
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124688
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122990
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965101
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904478
Harold Rosenbaum Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898373
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897089
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