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.
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 859898
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078184
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856312
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151638
2-3 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 860163
Mark Foster
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126006
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125571
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur (dt)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1592240
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1077358
3-6 oct.
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918712
SATB w/opt. Violin & Cello
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919184
(with And Can It Be that I Should Gain)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169422
Ich lasse dich nicht
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1039310
C Instrument, Cello
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1154652
2-3 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919213
Two-Part Mixed
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856980
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918222
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123415
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058071
Fragment einer Oper
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 663773
Rhythm Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 919137
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815968
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859572
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058532
PraiseSong Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169398
Born Is the Lord Emanuel
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039330
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152041
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158438
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855741
Volume 1: SATB
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 1152127
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 856124
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917784
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1038235
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856575
Chorset – 25 Stimmen
SATB
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Choir scores
Item no.: 673438
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855770
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 1345417
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153488
(2011)
for: Mixed choir, harp, accordion, percussion
Score
Item no.: 774709
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908464
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 914358
An Anthem with Readings for the Season of Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122773
Mi sfidate
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038697
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1059409
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1117470
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039229
3-6 oct.
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856362
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