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.
Geistliche Chorallied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726827
Walton Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985115
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001837
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002572
Descant Collection
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1002489
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354101
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965435
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985531
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985039
Walton Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984838
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002398
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002031
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168348
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002467
PraiseSong Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169606
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 906041
Pavane Secular
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168289
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354098
Gentry Publications
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1326858
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326433
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168463
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1353459
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326381
H.T. Fitzsimons Co
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1353485
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002274
From the Winged Joy
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 902984
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002334
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330962
Walton Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984979
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003405
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965299
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 860412
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 883917
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002155
(with Hear Our Prayer, O Lord)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167458
Pavane Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168566
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1003005
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 928173
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 911896
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984884
for: Women's choir (6 parts)
Vocal score
Item no.: 1559217
(Staffelpreise möglich)
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676677
nach dem "Notturno" aus der Schauspielmusik zu "Ein Sommernachtstraum"
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1690138
Ensemble
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685722
Entreact und Ensemble
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685104
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/09
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684816
Walzer für Männerchor und Orchester
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Male choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684769
No. 4 She Shall Have Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 911119
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