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: 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
für gem Chor und Instrumente
Eine deutsche Gospelpassion
for: 2 soloists (ABar), mixed choir, narrator, tenor saxophone, piano; rhythm group (bass, percussion) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 655190
4. Mauthausener Kindermesse für Kinderchor und Klavier (Instrumente ad lib.)
Paket (20 Singhefte, CD, Begleitheft)
for: Children's choir, piano
Score, Parts, CD
Item no.: 649694
In honorem Sancti Liborii
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 633012
Streicherstimmensatz
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SAATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 637046
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
Hommage à Leoš Janácek
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Orgelauszug
Item no.: 633209
Ein Kindermusical
for: Soloists, children's choir, actors, instruments
Songbook (melody, chords, lyrics)
Item no.: 778844
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1017478
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SABar), 2 violins, cello, organ; 2 horns ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1550394
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1012561
nach Gallus Zeiler
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]; solo voice ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1010585
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 582212
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 582209
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 621889
In den Gärten der Zeit
(Le Moribond)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 621477
"Sparrow Mass"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SMezAA), women's choir (SMezAA), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 620940
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 331197
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 328057
op. 48/2
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330894
Urtext
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 328413
For SATB and Variations.
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 193647
Musica Sacra vegyeskarra I/4
Songs about Jesus and the saints
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 193215
Eine herrliche, glanzvolle, nicht schwere Messe. Mit Credo.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 212324
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 212040
"Alt skoven sig fordunkler"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 488603
Motette für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 466589
Schlusschoral aus Kantate 140
Harmonia
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 189914
Reproduktion des Autographs nach der Faksimileausgabe von 1912
Arnold Schönberg – Sämtliche Werke 16,2
for: 5 soloists (SMezTTB), narrator, male choir (TTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra,
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 191461
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NMA) I/1/1,3
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 480253
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 480217
a 4 voix mixtes et orgue
Edition B ohne Credo!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 189222
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 190158
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 190054
Trauermotette
Möseler Chorreihe Nr. 273
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 475615
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 187277
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 686990
for: Male choir
[deutsch, englisch, slowensich]
Item no.: 465135
für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor oder Vokalquartett a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 186541
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Sammelband (Chorpartitur)
Item no.: 188832
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 188670
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 185935
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 186375
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476416
for: Male choir
Item no.: 183988
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