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.
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 291641
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 311546
Europa singt – Italien
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273856
Score with piano reduction
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (piano reduction)
Item no.: 274601
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 216029
Oratorium breve (1944)
für Soli, zwei gemischte Chöre und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 246408
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 242757
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 245357
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309408
Neapolitanisches Volkslied
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 186246
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 179039
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 181769
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 171902
Brieger Christnacht 1944
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 177431
for: Choir, organ
Item no.: 455709
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579891
Nr. 10 aus Oratorio de Noël op. 12
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 477437
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 476360
for: Male choir
Item no.: 187047
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 476418
Deutsche Weihnachtslieder
in leichten 2-stg. Sätzen mit Gitarrenbegleitung (inkl. CD)
for: 2 voices [choir]; guitar ad lib.
Ensemble score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 622186
for: Women's choir, organ
Klavierauszug (Orgel)
Item no.: 620059
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (piano reduction)
Item no.: 218210
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 311793
Musica Sacra vegyeskarra I/1 – Karácsonyi és húsvéti ünnepkör
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 314011
(Set)
for: Choir
2 Playback-CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 494724
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 621412
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 618970
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 565128
Now Arise Ye She Pherds Mild
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317553
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317404
Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317389
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317385
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317316
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317227
for SATB choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 613351
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 145785
Weihnachtsmotette
für Sopran, Alt, Tenor Baß, Chor, 2 Violinen, 4 Violen und Basso continuo
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 137045
für 2 gem Chöre, Streicher und Bc, Stimmen Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 138733
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 143760
Choralia
for: Mixed choir [male choir]
Item no.: 455482
Nr. 4 Virga Jesse floruit
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 106048
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 419909
for: 4 voices [4 melodic instruments]
Score
Item no.: 566330
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 146260
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 455788
Finlandia
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 479883
Sacred cantata
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 869359
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