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.
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965592
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169664
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965473
Swiss Composers Series
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671862
Walton Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985558
Cantate
Swiss Composers Series
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 1671534
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168533
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1002156
Brookfield Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965547
LKM Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 872230
Eugene Rogers Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330974
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1003544
SSAA
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985566
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 775760
6. Dorinda, ah, dirò mia, se mia non sei - Terza parte
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629720
8. Ferir quel petto, Silvio? - Quinta e ultima parte
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629452
1.2 O Teseo, o Teseo mio! (Lamento d’Arianna - Seconda parte)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629422
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1629316
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984730
(Ubi Caritas)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985654
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925055
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985370
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985021
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326805
Let the Redemption Come
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326465
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169543
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167449
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927253
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167680
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168708
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167777
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 861642
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1126237
from The Alfred Burt Carols
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125451
Together We Sing Series
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1123596
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124874
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122967
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122873
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121844
Richmond Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1541657
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1534542
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326954
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168320
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168312
(from The Sound of Music)
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1106562
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895938
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820743
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 776738
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