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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092239
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 775814
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148421
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148531
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1152369
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931576
Oper/Operette
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914877
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1194048
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124670
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309643
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 1532304
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1316891
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 691288
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308097
"Cunctipotens Genitor Deus"
für gemischten Chor a cappella (Orgel ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 308012
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 1018276
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1024950
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110711
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1617150
Walton Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087194
Ars Antiqua Choralis, Volume II
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1153344
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002765
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100424
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823998
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325766
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959862
5. Dans la maison de doleur
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751719
for: Solo voice (soprano/tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1542063
Incorporates This Is My Father's World
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 827103
Includes keyboard reduction
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1157745
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952545
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1172919
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097211
(Tritt Aud Den Riegel Von Der Tur) - S.S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626195
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320501
aus: Antiqua-Chorbuch II
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105840
op. 6
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Chorstimme
Item no.: 1544805
Pavane Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168410
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824322
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116084
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824646
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), strings
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 766731
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Book
Item no.: 1076636
C Instrument
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152210
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326198
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 825537
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105632
Hodie nata est Beata Virgo Maria
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 310505
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