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.
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light, BWV 248
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039906
No. 1. The Star of Christmas Morning
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078027
Christmas Collection
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 693316
Choral
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 671604
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950374
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124687
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123357
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655692
with Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Discovery Plus Band Series – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 674254
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1157608
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1155135
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 892403
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1157110
Parvulus filius/Behold the Little Child
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157697
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154610
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1005015
A Child Is Born
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1024927
Hinshaw Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057302
Traditional Irish
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058672
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919075
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122173
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150102
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037965
Quintet Collection
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 919458
SATB and Piano, 4 Hands
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Choir score
Item no.: 1107939
Messe
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041071
String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1155311
Volkslied für gemischten Chor (SAB)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2387
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058438
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125789
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761221
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903795
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1158675
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670933
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1155580
Ding Dong Merrily on High, Jingle Bells and Carol of the Bells
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124774
aus: "Fuenfftzig Geistliche Lieder vnd Psalmen ..."
Nürnberg 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4115
SATB w/opt. Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856936
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124118
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950636
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167396
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965625
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1656110
Harp, Organ, Flute, Oboe, Cello, Full Score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1151859
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 871113
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 919361
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918550
Christmas Anthem for Satb Voices and Keyboard
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1617050
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