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.
(from The Muppet Christmas Carol) Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1692237
contains 25 parts
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1186512
Heft 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418549
Sterndreherlied
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1160944
SATB and condensed score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1208897
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1557897
Orchesterfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 clarinets (B-flat), 2 horns (C), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 tenor horns, timpani, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo, organ
Organ score
Item no.: 499747
Mark Foster
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1126298
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824978
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869322
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 1024467
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609553
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608667
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609526
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938112
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158525
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121536
GIA Christmas
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1155890
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 870343
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 886230
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609488
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824991
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 864113
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 874818
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097071
for: Choir (one voice), flute, guitar, latin percussion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1014986
Flute/Recorder, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, tuned Percussion, untuned Percussion
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1151228
Puer Natus Est
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1157133
Ein Kind Ist Uns Geboren - S.S.A.T.B.B., A Cappella Or With Optional Accompaniment
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626138
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911038
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609549
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151658
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097011
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115668
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984849
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121529
Chor
for: Choir
Item no.: 880664
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092150
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097168
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 914944
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959807
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959882
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984905
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959934
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609908
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097660
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097102
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092019
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