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.
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532922
Discovery Level 1
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019620
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 606230
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 772236
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695450
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1549559
for mixed choir (AATBarBarB)
for: Mixed choir (AATBarBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549240
Shakespeare-Sonett Nr. 18
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697503
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697075
Voices In Harmony
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532924
Scripture: John 14:15-17
Choral Essentials
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902596
Konzertwerk
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1005193
Choral score
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 818212
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1099083
for mixed choruses
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 564239
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 550833
A Fractured Fable of Frogs, Folks and Falling Skies
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1656842
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 692241
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105576
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100798
A New Gospel Music Experience for mixed Voices
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 685337
Vier Stücke zur Passionszeit
für 4-stimmig gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 672470
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962163
10 magical songs to make you really smile.
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 831800
Volume 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317834
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983015
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101476
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982971
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 983021
Enoch Two-Part Songs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962159
12 Shanties für Männerchor, Bariton und Klavier
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano [accordion]
Score
Item no.: 341317
Moderne Chorjodler
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 667351
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 680905
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470130
Revised
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950988
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 581511
Cantata for the Purification of Mary or 3rd day of Easter
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), oboe, violin, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233922
Bläserquartett - Chor
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Piano reduction
Item no.: 645825
Voices Rising Timothy Seelig Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533061
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 346804
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1329214
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004509
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905880
Church Music Society
for: Children's choir (one voice), organ
Score
Item no.: 863647
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657036
Carus Contemporary
graduated prices on request
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 641597
Dramatisches Oratorium in 11 Szenen
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (women voices)
Item no.: 493757
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 1633236
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