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: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 388487
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360852
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 389011
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 174759
for: Women's choir (smeza), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 327922
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389014
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124875
80 ausgewählte Chorsätze für vier gemischte Stimmen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 279332
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 776662
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389012
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 292419
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 798003
Dona nobis pacem, Domine
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 166951
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801800
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 620065
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 179474
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814364
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 692281
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2656
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3027
for: 2 voices (MezA) [women's choir]; piano ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 4893
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360854
"Coronation Mass"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 285974
Edition Peters Green Series
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378417
"Little Organ Mass"
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116431
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142057
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (Bar), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 161206
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241365
Organum Reihe 1
Geistliche Gesangsmusik, Nr. 17
for: Soloists (ATB), mixed choir (ATB), string orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1008691
für vier- bis achtstimmigen Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (4–8 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 655672
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 679950
Nur zusammen mit den Chorstimmen lieferbar!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 603645
Messkomposition für Solo-Sopran, großen gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) und Band
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), violin, bandoneon [accordion], piano, double bass, drumset, percussion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 674110
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 179850
für 3 gleiche Stimmen
L'Orphéon des Enfants No.4
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 461456
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 497280
Schüler im Konzert 9
Einführung in Hamburger Schülerkonzerte
for: School class
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 338132
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203609
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) III/1 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband) (Complete edition, Urtext, Collection)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 376092
Dramma per musica in three acts
Urtext from Francesco Cavalli - Opere
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 619019
Die günstige Chorausgabe mit dem gesamten Gesangspart ohne die Klavierbegleitung.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 556798
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832073
Opera in tre atti
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 178114
Romantische Oper in 3 Akten
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 290891
Motette für zwei vierstimmige gemischte Chöre
BWV 225 – Urtextausgabe
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for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 116726
Psalm 111
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), 2 oboes, 2 string orchestras, 2 organs
Piano reduction
Item no.: 362011
Mozarts Fragment mit den Ergänzungen von Joseph Eybler und Franz Xaver Süßmayr (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 196720
27 weltliche, gemischte Chorsätze meist Coro SATB
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 279271
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