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: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850526
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125356
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901315
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857017
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869676
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 860519
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123035
Five Hungarian folksong arrangements from "For Children" by Béla Bartók
Öt magyar népdalfeldolgozás Bartók Béla "Gyermekeknek" c. sorozatából
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 850482
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 987642
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123318
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 920221
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918423
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855811
SATB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918626
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 889596
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1093453
hatszólamú vegyeskar Nagy Szent Gergely himnusza nyomán
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850292
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 914354
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057671
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1004908
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904824
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1593466
Full Score
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 909896
Hinshaw Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898785
Remembering Alexander Peloquin
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1154193
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1151667
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 855286
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040157
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 882245
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1026593
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1159111
O Queen of Heaven
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150554
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 908824
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915239
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038708
Klassik
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 874011
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125918
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122786
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855903
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078085
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950237
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609166
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 900610
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609521
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950259
for 2 voices, mixed chorus and orchestra
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: 2 soloists (AT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1343961
für SATB und Klavier
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1608635
afterpiece
Facsimile: Printed score, Walsh (1751) and libretto, M. Cowper (1751)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile)
Item no.: 930398
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