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, piano
[englisch]
Item no.: 576568
A dos voces iguales
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 775788
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804085
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803995
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803832
for: Solo voice (high), mixed choir (SSATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 692237
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 608961
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808245
A Cappella Arrangements for Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808213
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808040
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812864
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812591
Traditional catalonian carol
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 774468
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813731
Sussex Carol
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811525
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811381
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811074
A medley of easy–going holiday songs
Discovery Plus Band Series – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 674282
Stimmensatz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 681478
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 659959
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 658873
Concert Festival Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 660854
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 647360
Opt. Flute and Bells
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656479
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Complete orchestral parts
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649420
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167823
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167750
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167746
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167631
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167566
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167463
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167350
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808865
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804861
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804782
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804507
Choral Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 804325
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809826
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809676
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809581
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805597
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805537
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805248
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807168
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807135
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807119
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806951
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806898
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