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.
Himmelfahrts Kantate BuxWV 22
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, 2 violas, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1043064
Fragment, completed by Maximilian Stadler
KV 323, 1790 (terminus post quem)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 817066
E Phrygian - SWV 461
for: 5 soloists (SSTTB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1161101
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSTBarB, S[A]TTBarB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1136801
Motette
for: Choir
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336752
Motette
for: Choir
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336750
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 332777
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476518
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907513
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906271
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960460
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960379
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960271
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959974
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959947
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959515
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 978793
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 926224
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923605
Folk aus Osteuropa
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916855
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 914911
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914236
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911941
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910213
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909025
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938077
Das Lied des kirchlichen Neubeginns
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1549357
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1053340
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1093112
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 926090
A Cantata Inspired by Spirituals
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655710
Musicals
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823776
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823646
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823642
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825267
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916532
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916181
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916073
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915614
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960164
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960110
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959678
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959624
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912968
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912185
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909971
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905570
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