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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 934118
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934114
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934105
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934097
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 934067
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933998
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933982
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933965
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933919
A German Requiem
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 933911
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933903
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933882
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933648
An Easter Musical Drama
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933644
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933621
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929932
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 929924
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929767
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929732
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929695
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929675
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929484
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929337
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929226
Folk
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 929180
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929167
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929131
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929082
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929076
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929028
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 928970
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 928949
Ein Lehrstück von Bertolt Brecht
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1696599
Freu dich, Maria, Himmelskönigin
for: Choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 117134
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116725
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116017
Motette
Psalm 96 aus "Kleiner Psalter"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115485
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 231789
Verwendung auch in der Adventszeit möglich Messe ohne Gloria
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 237734
Kyrie-Gloria-Messe (Lutherische Messe)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 480233
for: 2 solo voices, mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 563934
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1127136
Motette
aus "Cantiones sacrae" (1625)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 882673
Melodram
for: 2 soloists (TB), children's choir, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 486850
für Sopran, Bariton, Knabensopran, Chor und Orchester nach Texten von Horst Salomon
for: 3 soloists (boy soprano, soprano, baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1696391
für Gemeinde, Vorsänger, gemischten Chor, Jazztrio und Orgel (oder Bläser)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, organ [wind ensemble], rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums)
Score
Item no.: 659457
für chor
exempla nova 601
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 663386
HWV 258
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 656562
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