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), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324723
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 363442
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 746368
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326791
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 297048
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318132
Choral
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 317638
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 317596
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 317270
Cantata for 12th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684583
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 798142
from Mary Poppins Returns
ShowTrax CD
Disney Choral
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745729
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 692205
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 377248
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 374977
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317953
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812113
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 765598
Discovery Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 693487
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 636924
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 587013
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 459942
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326996
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319319
for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 319305
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 318560
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321856
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261667
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 179473
Cantata No. 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2–3 pianos, percussion (6 parts)
Choir score
Item no.: 563933
Gospelsong (Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730180
Gospelsong aus Trinidad (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730169
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 724268
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679479
Le Printemps
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040445
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820541
for: Male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 665206
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 657729
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 767842
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 321706
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 880331
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835042
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812398
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 808705
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 808266
for: School class
Set of parts
Item no.: 807273
for: School class
Buch + CD
Item no.: 807220
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 806712
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