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.
Ars Antiqua Choralis, Volume 5
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1158854
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906890
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116761
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959891
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117436
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117112
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319909
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923954
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 643420
dalmatinisches Volsklied
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 647632
Nach Süden nun sich lenken
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043641
In der Natur op. 63/2
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1115024
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Chorpartitur, Klavierpartitur
Item no.: 642171
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 642160
SATB a cappella
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160943
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160886
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1043790
Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124978
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824742
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824589
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824819
(To a Heart That's True)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824591
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 693437
Prince
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Music score
Item no.: 683412
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154688
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915605
Turtle Creek Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124905
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910249
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1110763
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923516
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121525
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912675
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824607
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117171
Music of Uzee Brown, Jr.
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154767
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325651
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330507
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909124
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097711
GIA Celebration Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1157296
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319599
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912630
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 979003
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117402
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924135
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212492
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330591
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320552
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