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.
Villanella Napolitana
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1031874
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126347
Mark Foster
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125699
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123944
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123539
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122513
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121595
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100670
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097511
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097403
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097241
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096998
10 Exemplaires
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1070889
Masterpieces for mixed choir for mixed chorus a cappella hardcover
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1053339
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117356
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111281
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110795
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110309
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1108905
O, Att Min Gud Jag Kunde Lova
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147839
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142466
für Frauenstimmen (Solo und Chor) und Orgel (Harmonium)
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1136553
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212504
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168629
for: Women's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161798
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160826
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1159179
Year B, Revised Grail Lectionary Psalms 2010
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158180
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1157181
4 Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156344
Resource Recordings, Grade 4 3 CD set
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1154211
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153563
Today, Christ Is Born for Us
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152267
4 Horns in F or Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151538
Chor TBB
for: Male choir, organ
Music score
Item no.: 1201839
Ars Antiqua Choralis, Volume 5
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1158854
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124510
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906890
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116761
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 821192
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959891
Festlicher Spruch
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733388
"Harmony Mass"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 692996
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 769838
aus "Mörike-Chorliederbuch" op. 19
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 881294
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117436
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117112
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003280
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