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.
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
Antiphons and Music for Holy Week and Easter
Early English Church Music 8
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 769063
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
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122886
The Byrd Edition 6b
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 771274
C Instrument, Brass Quartet, Percussion
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1156738
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1153100
Die Prinzen
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341695
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919562
Der Gang zum Liebchen Op. 31/3
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1037585
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041721
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1156934
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919482
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 857388
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856285
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1095148
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037918
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 918549
SATB w/opt. Brass, Organ & Timpani
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918702
for: Mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1053318
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855830
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 919793
Given for us
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039835
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 815918
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918506
GIA Celebration Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1155603
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1193664
Handbell Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 855881
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1126690
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