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.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 395688
Dramatisches Pastoral in 2 Akten
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392123
for: Children's choir
Item no.: 389277
Swingle Music~Classics Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 148322
Nr 2 aus: Vier geistliche Gesänge op. 55
Motette zum Paul Gerhardt Jahr 2007
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 642841
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 148153
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 147442
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 147048
(Aurelius Prudentius)
for: Mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111443
aus "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" für gemischten Chor (SSATB)
Schott Kammerchor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111431
Psalm 130 (129) für gemischten Chor und Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 131640
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 134239
for: Children's choir
Item no.: 408866
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 410077
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 144188
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418635
Band 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 418594
for: Children's choir, instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 413566
für 4stg. Chor. Sonderdruck aus Bd. X der Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir, piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 142498
for: Male choir
Item no.: 332897
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 335561
Cantus Ecclesia 308
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 630476
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 377926
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 347464
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 349728
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 349514
Polnische Reihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 348126
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607230
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 607223
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607715
für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607637
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 606239
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 606785
Org Ou Pno
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 606689
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 608606
Motette für 3 Chöre
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 117045
Evangelienmusik nach Lukas: Es ging ein Sämann aus - Das verlorene Schaf - Der ungerechte Richter - Pharisäer und Zöllner
musica sacra nova
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116847
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 602273
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 630172
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 601187
for: Mixed choir (4–8 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 604311
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333608
Das Singspiel
for: Children's choir, Orff instruments
Score
Item no.: 137649
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 137269
Slawische Volkslieder für Kinderchor und Klavier
for: Children's choir, piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 130412
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 333185
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 333184
Chormusik Nach Europaeischen Volksliedern
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 335068
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