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.
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001723
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001683
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001665
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001653
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001618
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001612
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001601
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001591
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001565
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1001532
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001525
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001508
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001495
CD 10 Pak
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1001485
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003160
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003135
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003065
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003058
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003053
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003051
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003023
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003012
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003011
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002994
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002973
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002969
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002929
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002882
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002880
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002859
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002765
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002727
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002715
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002706
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002702
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002663
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1005176
Contemporary Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811843
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811729
Level 3 Mixed, Part-Learning CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810749
Voices Together
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809735
Broadway Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809541
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809427
Laudamus Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 809230
from The Civil War: An American Musical
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808292
with It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807944
(ShowTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808859
Contemporary Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808745
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