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.
36 Kinderlieder für Familie, Gottesdienst, ökumenischen Unterricht und Sonntagsschule (mit Bewegungsideen)
for: Children's choir, piano
Songbook
Item no.: 558762
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 244903
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 244888
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192924
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 550759
for: Soloists (SATB), mixed choir, string-instrument, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 480409
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 480368
Traditional
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 480341
Nr. 3 O Tod, wie bitter bist du
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193372
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 492763
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 465120
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 430037
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 194180
Words by Ady Endre
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 482874
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 430114
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 227992
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 217919
7 deutsche Volkslieder in neuen Farben
Mann singt - For Men only
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 687615
Békesség óhajtás - 1801. esztendő
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850723
for: Women's choir (SA) [male choir (TB)/ mixed choir (SATB)], organ [harmonium]
Choir score
Item no.: 769940
Die schönsten Melodien aus Oper und Operette
Chor zu dritt – Band 7
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 683429
from "Symphonic Adiemus"
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 672511
für gem Chor a cappella Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 672469
für TTBB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609714
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1609451
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/10
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 880931
Kindermusical frei nach dem Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm für Kinder ab 6 Jahren
Liederbuch mit den 8 Songs für Kinderchor und Klavier
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Piano reduction
Item no.: 671929
Chor-Kantate zum Reformationsfest
nach Sätzen Johann Sebastian Bachs zu dem Lied Martin Luthers
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 3 trumpets, timpani, organ
Score
Item no.: 664231
Oratorium für szenische oder konzertante Aufführungen
Das Aufführungsmaterial ist auf Anfrage erhältlich.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663349
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1202993
op. 163
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1120926
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663366
für 4-bis 6-stimmigen gemischten Chor, Saxophon und Orgel, singende Gemeinde ad lib.
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 661284
für gemischten Chor, zwei Trompeten (Flügelhörner), zwei Posaunen und Orgel
for: Mixed choir, brass winds, organ
Score
Item no.: 672313
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1203089
Sange for pigekor
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 840858
Sieben Chorlieder für 4-stg. gem. Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 633816
Motette, Nr. 9 aus "Geistliche Chor-Music" (1648)
Herausgegeben auf der Basis der Eidiotn von Werner Breig in der Neuen Schütz-Ausgabe (2003)
for: Mixed choir (5 voices), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 633677
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 623999
Bearbeitung des Air aus der Suite für Orchester Nr. 3 für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 615471
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 615465
Discovery Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 612865
Gesammelte Lieder und Chorsätze
Band 1 und 2
for: Voice [choir]
2 Songbooks (Hardcover)
Item no.: 611872
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 611805
for: Male choir, organ
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 613251
für gem Chor a cappella
aus 12 deutsche Volkslieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 613095
Synagoge und Schtetl 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 614342
mit Walzer-Variation
Bosse Hits a cappella
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 498927
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