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.
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122763
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169389
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123424
Neue Geistliche Lieder zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1681976
für 1-, 3-, oder 4-stimmigen Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (1, 3, or 4 parts), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 678864
(with Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815894
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 855207
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983034
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078253
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041662
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815852
Oratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274625
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 856587
(Spain)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726420
in Adventu Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
aus: Musici Operis
Prag, 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4386
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160066
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760304
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1004881
SATB w/opt. Brass & Perc.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918593
Chorheft Nr. 7 - Weihnachtslieder der Reformation
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733358
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1059410
Bring and raise Offerings
Final movement of the Christmas Oratorio, op. 12
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665181
(Slovakia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726419
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169392
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154153
Swiss Composers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549533
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765975
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125747
weihnachtliche Meditation
mit singenden Gläsern
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1011483
Tohter Zion / Kommet, ihr Hirten / Still still, still
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Partitur
Item no.: 1653117
African Christmas Greeting
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126507
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759118
from: Sacro Sanctae Dei Laudes
Venice 1600
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6305
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151618
Neue Lieder für die Advents-und Weihnachtszeit
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Choir book
Item no.: 780997
für Männerchor (TTBB) a cappella
Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 684632
für gemischten Chor
nach Texten von Ulrike Krumm
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 680829
in vierstimmigen Sätzen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 775045
für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Spielpartitur Violine 1/2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Ensemble score
Item no.: 671137
für Sopran, Chor, 2 Trompeten, 2 Violinen, Baß und Pauken
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 194934
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 176756
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 193489
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 189581
Close Harmony
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192398
for: 5 voices [5 instruments]
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 569506
Kinder-Weihnachtsmusical für Darsteller, Kinderchor und Instrumente
Chorpartitur
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 577927
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 555059
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 493005
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