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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1200808
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534852
In der Natur op. 63/2
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1115024
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Chorpartitur, Klavierpartitur
Item no.: 642171
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 642160
SATB a cappella
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160943
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160886
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1043790
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825846
Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124978
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824282
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965191
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168596
Book/Enhanced CD (with reproducible pages and PDF song charts)
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 767721
from Pete's Dragon
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534521
Every Story is a Love Story - Fortune Favors the Brave
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1534465
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825398
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824742
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824589
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823361
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823333
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003051
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002020
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001765
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824819
(To a Heart That's True)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824591
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 840400
(with Shout to the North)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 645892
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 836981
Pastorella
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; Glockenspiel [triangle] ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 777016
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 693437
“Singet dem Herrn”
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 770505
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824673
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 993410
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 993368
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 993326
4 Voix Mixtes - Chansons Francaises
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 993297
Francis Poulenc Partie De Choeur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136650
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 818855
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 818796
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 819009
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 818421
Les Garcons De Chez Nous
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 818168
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 646827
"Prager" Te Deum
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 691701
Prince
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Music score
Item no.: 683412
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 300731
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 299972
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