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 Trinidad
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728168
from Australia
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728134
from England
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728126
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1544601
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212374
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904224
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897877
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 895196
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 895131
for: Youth choir [female choir] (SA), piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 655513
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1545896
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701958
Passio secundum Marcum
First version, first performed in Weimar around 1713 by J. S. Bach
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 234288
Cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 233534
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 226859
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 225628
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 470157
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 470091
for: 2 voices (SS) [TT], organ
Score
Item no.: 421967
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 370396
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 367034
for mixed chorus (SATB) and instruments
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Score
Item no.: 362249
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 429285
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423885
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 327553
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 323764
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 320362
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 319716
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 317681
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 308329
Opera in 3 acts
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1020083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1343139
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701235
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1692224
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1690423
from Wish
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1690333
from Wish
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1690283
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672686
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [combo]
Choir score
Item no.: 1670942
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633950
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633219
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566834
for: Choir (2 voices), piano; glockenspiel ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1566721
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562582
for: Soloist, women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562024
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557018
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556999
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809770
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