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.
Concert Festival Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score, Choir score
Item no.: 556211
für Gesang (gem Chor) und Klavier (Gemeinde ad lib) Partitur
for: Choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1652976
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 696994
aus: Symphoniae Sacrae III
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672032
Ein Musical für Kinder
nach dem Gleichnis Jesu aus dem Lukasevangelium
für Kinderchor und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, instruments
Lyrics
Item no.: 616431
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, cello, basso continuo
Single part Violin 1, 2
Item no.: 1658761
Völlig losgelöst
Power Of Voice
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 154406
Original 1 Ton tiefer
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1669505
Nr. 2 aus: Weltliche a-cappella-Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546516
Power of Voice: Hits, Standards, Evergreens für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 339201
Me compare Giacometo
Venezianisches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 378291
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 364345
für gem. Chor und Orgel (Klavier)
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 622992
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1664085
Nr. 2 aus: Sechs Lieder für Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1659762
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1681507
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 676168
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 577046
für gemischten Chor a cappella (Klavier/Orgel ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 664320
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 188125
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
Weihnacht
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651933
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334234
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1666833
Aus der Reihe Chormusik in Einzelausgaben.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1678082
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 1676960
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1652234
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 1668011
Lied Nr. 130: 'Wach auf, meins Herzens Schöne'
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1632239
Graduale pro omne tempore
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1676822
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Soprano in ripieno, Cantus-Firmus-Choralchor
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1664712
Dona nobis pacem, Domine
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 182764
aus Vier Lieder op. 20
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1682082
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1669590
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 426135
Kleine Weihnachtsmusik
for: Soloist, mixed choir (SAB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 378223
Dialektfassung
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651931
(My way)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 311067
Altdeutscher Liederreim
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 373339
for: Male choir
Item no.: 1668981
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 173803
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 586723
for: Male choir
Item no.: 310791
From Walt Disney's »The Lion King«
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 471845
Signore delle cime
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 608711
aus der Oper "Hänsel und Gretel"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560609
(Es löscht das Meer die Sonne aus)
Französisches Volkslied aus der Provence
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 1657079
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.: 1653448