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.
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 245743
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 552648
Broadway Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 552644
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 552640
Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 494441
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 429285
Broadway Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 135685
Choral Treasury Series
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 797906
Discovery Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812945
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805119
ShowTrax CD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 804776
Discovery Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804346
from Rent
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803428
From: Pocahontas
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 660978
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 814548
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804501
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799222
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 656186
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 180105
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805073
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802810
A Sequential Approach to Rhythm Reading
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 813450
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803292
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 578267
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810897
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810620
Discovery Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810585
Discovery Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808302
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808785
Choral Highlights
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 807917
Choral Collection
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804146
from Annie ger your gun
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802717
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1534593
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813453
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812604
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808598
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 642962
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 552642
From the Motion Picture »Avatar«, Recorded by Leona Lewis
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 497646
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814972
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814621
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809770
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808714
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806446
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804285
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804233
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802877
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534505