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: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936923
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936689
Opt. Flute & Percussion
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 937223
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 937215
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936461
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 470988
for unison voices with a simplified piano accompaniment
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 376479
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935481
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935404
The First Noel-Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935378
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 931983
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935162
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934650
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934629
Jingle Bells by James Pierpont
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763308
The First Noel-Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763256
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929884
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 929424
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934279
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934122
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933663
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911585
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910303
A Musical for Children Based Upon a Story by Charles Dickens
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 850086
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 850030
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905727
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903224
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909816
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906994
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764447
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 764418
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 764417
Incorporating Dona Nobis Pacem and Silent Night! Holy Night!
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930833
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933605
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933172
A Mini-Musical for Unison and 2-Part Voices
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 848260
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 901465
Spanish Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 899530
A Christmas Musical for Children
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 888970
A School-Time, Yule-Time Journey
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 887200
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 848487
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 896353
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 849599
Directors Score
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 847333
Nigerian Christmas Carol for men's choir (TTB) and percussion ad libitum
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 679904
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 576528
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 473876
At the Hour of Midnight
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 662719
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