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.
SATB w/opt. Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919276
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 trombones (AT), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6352
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342687
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1076946
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855547
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150368
Handbell Part C5-C7 (23 bells)
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855550
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040931
Christrose
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695349
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
Tohter Zion / Kommet, ihr Hirten / Still still, still
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Partitur
Item no.: 1653117
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
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151618
Close Harmony
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192398
Kinder-Weihnachtsmusical für Darsteller, Kinderchor und Instrumente
Chorpartitur
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 577927
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697298
Graduale u. Offertorium für die 3. Messe des Weihnachtsfestes, mit Orchester u. Orgel
Österreichische Kirchenmusik Band 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 309557
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 457112
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 489433
für Männerchor a cappella
Singpartitur
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 120161
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 559799
for: Children's choir, instruments
Item no.: 343675
Du steigest von den Sternen – bekanntes italienisches Weihnachtslied
zwei Soli oder 1-2stimmiger Gemeindegesang und Klavier
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 336021
Two Part (any combination)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919043
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931355
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125134
10 Exemplaires
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1070891
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 362081
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 326030
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124755
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124458
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 620925
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 613811
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 493005
EOS - Eulenburg Orchestral Series (komplett) (complete)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; oboe [trumpet], 2 violas, 3 trombones colla parte ad lib.
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 294127
Musique sacrée française
for: Mixed choir (SATTB), baroque orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605256
Entstehungszeit evtl. um 1610
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668623
Christmas Carol
for male chorus a cappella
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1658466
Christmas Carol
for male chorus a cappella
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 559443
Elf Weihnachtslieder für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 488394
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 459248
10 neue Weihnachtslieder für einstimmigen Chor
und Instrumentalstimme mit Klavier
for: Children's choir (one part), melody instrument, piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1655017
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 557209
Kling Glöckchen Kling
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1276414
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