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 (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1342681
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 494219
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 442769
Comic Operetta in 3 Acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383684
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 367282
for: Mixed choir (3–7 parts) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 123426
Version von 1900 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 580480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 672499
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 635147
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 657090
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 612185
for: Children's choir (2 voices), pian; strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 554509
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 337228
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 323235
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 338676
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 620697
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 493495
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 489660
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416697
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 479248
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 247756
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 185167
includes, besides the original version, a version with a smaller orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 667224
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Score
Item no.: 778380
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) [6 solo voices]
Score
Item no.: 772799
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 769395
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 663312
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 682920
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 654879
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806362
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 797577
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Instrumental parts
Item no.: 334658
Arrangement for women's choir
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 605941
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 905657
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1017481
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 853599
Chorale motet
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB/ ATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 695318
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 302955
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 279321
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 183887
for: Soloist (alto/baritone), mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 169052
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 244773
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 244524
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 horns, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 228471
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 201991
Vocal Score
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288322
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 4645
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 176998
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