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.
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919591
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919720
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1093034
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 917047
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907274
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 855061
Chor und Klavier
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Item no.: 879602
Hinshaw Secular
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899503
Unsere Stimmen für das Klima
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 1215804
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209086
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1209457
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1209459
Das Lied des kirchlichen Neubeginns
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1549359
for choir and organ
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1553035
für 3 Solostimmen und gem Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1556491
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1557785
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1566234
phonetic transcritions in scores
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1613194
'Coronation Mass'
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1682203
aus "Das Psalmbuch"
Chormusik für das Jahr der Kirche
Sonderanfertigung
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668080
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1669004
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; accordion, guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1671002
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671782
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1658202
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667865
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1677320
Heft 2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651640
Volkslied aus Schwaben
für Männerchor (TTBB)
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1653772
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1670435
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1670487
Anonym überliefertes Shanty aus Neuseeland
for: Male choir, piano ad lib.
Choir score with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 1666623
Bozener Bergsteigerlied
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667162
CHOR
16
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score, Choir score
Item no.: 1664547
zur Carl-August-Feier 1875
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 1664599
Psalmszene zum Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB), narrator, oboe, strings
Score
Item no.: 1661172
Chorus Part
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1664248
Schott Chormusik
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664384
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1652827
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1653018
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1618865
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1659471
for: Male choir
Item no.: 1659905
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), Viola, harmonium [organ]
Score
Item no.: 1660335
für gemischten Chor, Kinderchor, 6 Solostimmen und großes Orchester Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, children's choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1654909
(The Slighted Heart)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627688
"Süßes Lieb"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747036
Hob. XXVc:1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)], piano
Score
Item no.: 4374
from the opera "Fidelio”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732564
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