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 a cappella
Item no.: 135490
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 461712
Text: deutsch/hebräisch
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 136683
Die Heilung der Blinden
Mini-Musical für Kinder
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 134924
for: Women's choir a cappella
30 Chorpartituren
Item no.: 134781
Das Chorwerk 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 409603
für gem Chor und Streicher (2 Pauken ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 409578
Band 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
[englisch]
Item no.: 409565
Motette
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 409555
und andere a-cappella-Gesänge aus dem 16. und dem Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 409538
Leicester 1976
Europa Cantat
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 409533
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 403115
Chorus Part
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 408882
Wenig getragene Perlen des Evangelischen Gesangbuchs
für gem Chor (z.T. mit Instrumenten) Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 605283
Régi táncdal
Dallama: 'Ungarescha' J. Paix orgonakönyvéből (1583)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607796
Nr. 23 Oremus
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 582039
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 586977
Oper in 4 Akten
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 581097
Für den Unterricht an allgemein bildenden Schulen
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 473304
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
2004/05
für Bariton solo, gemischten Chor, Gemeinde, Trompete, Tenorposaune, Schlagzeug und Orgel
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), parish, instruments
Score
Item no.: 469201
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 462530
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 583436
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115770
Motette
aus "Israelsbrünnlein"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115524
Liedmotette nach einer Weise der Böhmischen Brüder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115491
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
Blüte, Frucht und Kern, Heft 6
for: Women's choir (SSA/SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115294
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
Introitus-Motette zum Advent
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114972
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
Comic opera in three acts
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Study scores
Item no.: 494354
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
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556222
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
Indianas No. 5
Latin American Choral Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 479247
Comedian Harmonists a cappella für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 482234
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