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.
Deutsches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 487870
Schott Choral Music
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 471371
Ein Popical für Kinder ab 11 Jahre und Jugendliche
Kaleidoskop
for: Children's choir, instruments
Piano score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 216275
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 224483
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 224099
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 550812
Heut' ist so ruhig der See
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 550803
Zehn Lieder gegen den Krieg
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 214636
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 550772
op. 49
for: Choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 482922
Kantate für Kinder
for: children's choir, small ensemble
Score
Item no.: 205968
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 213157
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 194706
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 135478
Pärts musikalische Interpretation der Seligpreisungen aus der Bergpredigt
lateinische Fassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 195109
Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem
für Soli, gemischten Chor, Instrumentalquartett (Oboe, Fagott, Violine, Violoncello) und Orgel
for: Soloists, mixed choir, ensemble, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 194127
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 194084
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205208
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 215232
Opéra en trois actes
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 486721
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 216820
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
PART - UEBERFORMAT
Item no.: 492967
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 492924
Madrigals 5v., Book 3/ 4/ 5
Secular Vocal Works 3/ 4/ 5
Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 100
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 223566
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 551601
Abschiedsmelodie
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 207794
Két madrigál
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 466358
L'Amore Amalto
Die kranckende Liebe
BEMF Opera Series Vol. IV
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 483953
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 207044
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 208628
auf Worte von Goethe, Claudius und Koerppen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486094
1. Tanz mir nicht mit meiner Jungfer Käthen, 2. Ich fahr dahin
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486090
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 562606
Eine Passion nach dem Evangelisten Johannes
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 551746
für Soli, Ch, Instr (3 Trp Pk Fag 2 Viol Vc Kb Org)
Erstdruck
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 225156
The teaching skills of composer Cristi Cary Miller have been applied to create this super musical way to learn the Do-Re-Mi Solfege system, written for both 2-part and 3-part groups.
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 433117
KV 140 (Anh. C 1.12)
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 225585
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 493644
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 430116
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 551028
Helbling Sacred Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 565118
for male, female or mixed voices
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 314476
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 314472
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 297591
für Männerstimmen / for male voices TTBB a cappella
Kritische Erstausgabe / Critical First Edition
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 565008
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 564983
Choralkantate Nr. 2 zum Totenfest
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295275
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