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.
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1057876
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1057857
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1057538
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1057160
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1057076
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1058284
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123975
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123861
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123854
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123848
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123664
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123432
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123232
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123155
Accompaniment and Performance CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123153
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122398
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122397
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122394
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122337
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122328
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122313
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122307
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122301
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122287
Mark Foster
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 826857
Mark Foster
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 826167
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 172644
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 192993
for: Male choir
Item no.: 311803
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 300731
Choral Part
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1122036
Broadway Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816287
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823748
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110080
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823287
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 218160
Arrangements zum Gotteslob
Melodieinstrumente in Es
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Single part in E-flat
Item no.: 671421
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 289180
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 278697
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085427
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085425
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085377
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085360
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085355
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085335
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1085320
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1059073
Hinshaw Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058758
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