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.
Titelmelodie aus dem gleichnamigen Film
Singender Broadway
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 156068
Spiritual (Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730187
from Ireland
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728130
from the USA
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728132
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1032149
for Men's voices, Tenor solo and Piano
for: Soloist (tenor), male choir (TTBarB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1654178
Bosse Hits a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1666920
Notendownload
for: Choir
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642704
Contemporary Sacred Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1651719
"Geiersong" aus: Das Dschungelbuch
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 290300
Erfolgreichster Hit der Pet Shop Boys
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 248203
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105472
Jazz-Ballade arrangiert für gemischten Chor (dreistimmig)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 656148
für Frauenchor a cappella (Sopran solo ad lib)
Partitur (dt/en)
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 655797
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895740
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738132
from 'The Band's Visit'
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690719
for SATB chorus
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793504
The 2019 Pop Hit by Mumford & Sons
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 1665039
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169234
Sacred Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1559414
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962099
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582747
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004529
from Elemental
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1654319
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533016
Judith Clurman Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1646435
Ode 1828/29
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475466
for choir, tea candles/candles and mechanical metronome
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 471458
Cantata for Ascension
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 424235
Anton Armstrong Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 693080
from 'Exsultate, Jubilate'
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 691514
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 874472
No. 1 ‘From the Bavarian Highlands’
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 932280
Holiday Musical
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 811970
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760229
New Lyrics to Old Favorites
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 808199
24 More Vocal Exercises for Warm-Up and Workout
for: Choir
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 807041
Choral Highlights
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 696937
Gesamtausgabe
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 677327
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 329654
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1582837
No. 4 At the River
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193978
In memoriam Roger Sessions
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1561082
Jubiläumsausgabe mit den beliebtesten Titeln der King's Singers
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 170482
for mixed chorus (SAB) and piano
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 183637
for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679478
for SATB (with divisions) and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 679411
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