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: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341896
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342524
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123007
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1326830
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342836
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 765857
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342981
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909548
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342410
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1656752
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121344
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908962
Zum neuen Jahr "Wie heimlicherweise ein Engelein leise"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740104
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342852
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341961
Bicinium für Sopran und Alt
aus "Musae sioniae"
for: Women's choir (SA) [2 solo voices]
Score
Item no.: 3517
Halleluja-Ruf: GL 174,7 / Text: Matthäus 16,18
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 735784
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122062
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121340
aus "Quattro Pezzi Sacri"
for: 4 voices [women's choir] (SSAA)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1492
SWV 429
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 3870
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342395
Text und Melodie aus Lothringen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726309
nach Lauda Sion"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725769
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 794025
aus: "Der erste Frühlingstag", op. 48 (Nr. 2)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1980
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725850
Acht Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1658349
Einschulungsstück mit drei Liedern
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Music score, Playback-Audio-CD
Item no.: 768024
A Due Cori 4
for: Choir (8 voices); 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1681366
SATB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856935
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121804
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342556
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1682054
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121291
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126772
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1654190
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726848
für Chor a cappella
Motette zu Psalm 50
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1666880
(aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn")
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793484
aus: 24 dreistimmige Vocalisen für Sopran, Mezzosopran und Alt mit begleitendem Instrumentalbasse zur Uebung im Solo- und Chorgesang op. 82, Leipzig o. J.
for: 3 voices [women's choir] (SMezA), piano
Score
Item no.: 6353
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092968
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341908
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919709
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 780632
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123721
für gem Chor und Orgel
Partitur (la/en)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1200834
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2952
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