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.
1. Der Mond ist aufgegangen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742471
2. Mein schönste Zier (Leipzig 1573)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742472
"Am fernen Horizonte"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 743604
Volkslied aus Estland
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 793984
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732290
Text: Liturgie
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726831
aus "Missa dona pacem"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726833
from Greece
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728157
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 724266
Three Hungarian folk songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737552
1. Morgenlied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737934
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746842
aus der Oper "Die Zauberflöte"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746922
nach slowakischen Liebesliedern
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747004
Psalm 50,3
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755697
Gesang zur Kommunion
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755701
nach Worten aus einem Brief von Vincent van Gogh
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 755776
(Vapaitettu kunigatar)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 744143
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 758507
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209079
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1351345
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1479758
4 Motetten
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 750700
Psalm 100
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646160
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 758511
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747900
5. Mit Lust tret ich in diesen Tanz (16 Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736209
"So schnell sind die Jahre vergangen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734130
(„Und frische Nahrung, neues Blut“)
aus: Sechs Lieder für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass, im Freien zu singen, op. 41 (Nr. 6)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5805
aus: Ohrenvergnügendes und gemüthergötzendes Tafelkonfect
Augsburg, 1733 / 1737 / 1746
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 3591
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209087
aus: "Sacrae Cantionies Quinis Vocibus Concinendae..."
Venezia, 1605
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4861
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 744283
Halleluja-Ruf: GL 174,5 (von a)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741125
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 759512
5. All that glisters is not gold - 6. Come away, death
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746903
"Ein König ist der Wein"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746849
from the operetta "Orpheus in der Unterwelt”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760322
Gospel for mixed choir and piano
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 1731
3. Spanische Nächte "Das ist der Zauber der spanischen Nächte"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742422
6 Folksongs in Swedish and German
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 738750
aus "Acht geistliche Gesänge", op. 138
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1381
für vierstimmigen Männerchor a cappella
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742423
Aria zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
aus "Neue geistliche auf die Sonntag durchs gantze Jahr gerichtete Andachten ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4513
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732298
5. Gram zernagt mein Herzchen · Hlavěnka mě bolí
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747012
from the opera "Rigoletto”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760215
aus: Musae sioniae, 8. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3081
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