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.
aus: Neüe Teütsche Gesang
Augsburg, 1596
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5802
Motette zum 2. Advent
aus: Liber primus cantionem sacrarum, Löwen 1609
for: Mixed choir (ATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6340
Volkslied, WoO 33, Nr. 48
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1342
für Sopran (Alt), Frauenchor (Kinderchor) und Orgel (Tasteninstrument) Partitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Item no.: 648540
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 657609
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 656851
Drei Kantatensätze
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 636366
Michael Jackson und Lionel Richie schrieben diesen tollen Song für das Projekt USA for Africa
for: Big band; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1566983
für gemischten Chor (SATB divisi) a cappella
Pop.Voxx Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659760
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SABar), 2 violins, cello, organ; 2 horns ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1161038
for: Narrator, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1160735
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 635099
Nach einer italienischen Volksweise
for: Women's choir (3 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 635093
for mixed chorus a cappella score
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634397
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Choir score
Item no.: 1655854
Le pecore amontagna
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 663962
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918711
Mark Foster Ithaca College Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122793
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1213024
SATB w/opt. Rhythm
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855827
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904882
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1160324
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1095115
from A Time for Alleluia
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125639
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038959
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1038683
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982965
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 856026
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856929
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124465
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149875
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040774
3-5 oct. w/opt. 3-4 oct. Handchimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855608
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124784
Gospel Acclamation
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150820
with The Snow Lay on the Ground, Sussex Carol, Good Christians All Rejoice
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126786
Two-Four-Part
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856934
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354154
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122870
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1341813
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 664836
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663000
"Guten Morgen deinem Hause"
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742380
(16. Jh.)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733443
Ein Stück mit Musik, Pantomime und Akrobatik (Schulmusical)
for: Children's choir, instruments
Songbook, CD
Item no.: 377032
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 375215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 375212
Me compare Giacometo
Venezianisches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 378291
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