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: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
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for: Choral
Item no.: 1374541
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 241284
From A Consort Of Choral Christmas Carols
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 357232
Offertorium für 4-stimmigen Chor und Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 293418
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814563
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812788
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807397
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805014
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815291
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814136
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 474858
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 550762
Süddeutsche Weihnachtsmusik Band 16
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, cello, organ; 2 trumpets, timpani ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 455884
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 946000
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 942997
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942885
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 942061
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 944775
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 565920
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 469087
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746000
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 576552
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 566040
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 696795
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764234
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762501
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764445
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763328
Singspiel zu Weihnachten
for: Children's choir (1 voice), the parish, instruments
Score
Item no.: 423769
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 621376
Adventliche und Weihnachtliche Chormusik
für dreistimmig gemischten Chor (SAM) a cappella (Melodieinstrument ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 663334
für gleiche Stimmen
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 673296
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 488408
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 344544
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
bearbeitet für Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 2667
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
for: Narrator, mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671410
Krippenspiel für Kindergarten- und Grundschulkinder
Klavierpartitur mit Aufführungshinweisen
for: Children's choir, narrator, actors, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663343
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1349818