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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122433
Partitura
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 257961
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 827337
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122312
Southern Music
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927280
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628229
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126289
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 245393
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122401
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892928
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124100
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823841
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125667
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628222
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 293058
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124451
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124090
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 628043
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125907
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 826981
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122299
Chorvariationenop. 15
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202735
8. Christkindleins Wiegenlied "O Jesulein zart"GeWV 65
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203422
(18. Jh.)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280267
"Lasst uns singen und fröhlich sein"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280335
aus der Oper "Undine"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203118
in Domenica Tertia in Quadragesima
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203438
Dominica Prima Adventus
aus "Sacrae Modulationes, Pars Prima"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 5207
aus: Außerlesene Teutsche Lieder
Nürnberg, 1580
for: Mixed choir (SAABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5771
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, organ
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5826
Introitus ad primam Missam Nativitatis Xi.
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6101
from "Songs for Gospel 3"
for Choir (SATB), Piano (Guitar, Bass, Drums ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Score, audio files
Item no.: 8016
for choir (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 2315
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 2696
(Text aus "Winnetou III")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3050
Gospel
for mixed choir (SATB) and piano / organ ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1909
Am Neujahrstag
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4130
WAB 17 (1848)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4183
aus: Geistliche Kirchenmelodien, 1649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [treble recorders], basso continuo
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 4232
Complementum, unnd dritter Theil
aus: "Fest- und Aposteltägiger Gedencksprüche", Erfurt 1621
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4446
aus: "Drei Geistliche Chöre für Frauenstimmen" op. 37 (Nr. 1)
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4716
Offertorium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 3426
Nr. 4, aus "Sechs Lieder" op. 25
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3696
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3936
nach „American Patrol“ von F.W. Meachem
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; clarinet, saxophone, guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 497550
Orchesterfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 clarinets (B-flat), 2 horns (C), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 tenor horns, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Score
Item no.: 499740
für Männerchor und Klavier
Zusatzstimme Flöte
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano [band]
Single part Flute
Item no.: 482838
Bodypercussion
for: Voices (body percussion), drums
Score, Single parts
Item no.: 627262
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