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.
Am Fest Mariä Reinigung
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 5257
eingerichtet für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5344
„Venerabilis Barba Capucinorum floruit“
aus: Sechs Canons zu Drey und Vier Stimmen, Leipzig 1807
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6312
from "Songs for Gospel 3"
for Choir (SATB), Piano (Guitar, Bass, Drums ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Score, audio files
Item no.: 8012
aus "Deutsche Volkslieder", WoO 35
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3482
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 766903
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 780643
Volkslied aus Südböhmen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 781620
Texte aus dem Toskanischen nach Ferdinand Gregorovius
for: 3 voices [women's choir] (SMezA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 782052
Tudor Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782079
Edition Schott
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 782185
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 731748
Psalm 122
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736471
Drei weihnachtliche Volkslieder
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742415
5. The Miller of Dee "War einst ein braver Müllersmann"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742466
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738797
Hannover 1838 (GL 377 ö)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734126
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750727
for narrator, men's chorus and orchestra
for: Narrator, male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 759261
for: Women's choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760826
2. Der schwarze Mond "In die mondlose Nacht"
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747034
from the Netherlands
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754641
from the Netherlands
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754642
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 757833
An dem Bach
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751787
Text: 13. Jh.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755702
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793498
Finnische Volksweise
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 793983
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795687
Möseler Chorreihe
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795710
Liturgie Officium
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725784
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725808
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725811
per coro (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 726106
from Hungaria
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728155
from former Czechoslovakia
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728156
Vier heitere Lieder
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 729187
28 popular seasonal anthems for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 832158
Schülerheft Band 1 (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Voices [children's choir], instruments
Ring binder
Item no.: 632470
Schülerheft 2
Spiralbindung
for: Voices [children's choir], instruments
Students book, CD
Item no.: 630042
Spiritualbearbeitung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 644082
Hymnus in Purificatione Mariae
Quod chorus vatum, 2. Str
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4476
Es wollt' die Jungfrau früh aufsteh'n
aus "Romanzen für Frauenstimmen", op. 91 (Nr. 7)
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 4507
aus: Sechs Lieder für gemischten Chor, op. 24 (Nr. 6)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4639
Ich hatte eine Nachtigall
aus: "Am Walchensee", op. 63 (Nr. 6)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4696
Mainz 1410 (GL 817)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741116
Kempten um 1000/Text: 9. Jh. (Hrabanus Maurus zugeschrieben) (GL 341)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741119
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760610
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