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: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 275685
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 276543
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 273574
Dramma giocoso in zwei Akten KV 588
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 273566
4 Standards aus dem Repertoire des Bohème-Qaurtetts
for: Male choir, piano
Score, choir score
Item no.: 291532
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261238
Aus "Sept Chansons" die Nr. 5
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261202
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 265920
Oper/Operette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 263529
Volume 6 - Sez. Seconda - Partitura e Commento Critico / Ed. Critica M. Bucarelli
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 263407
from "Songs of Peace"
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 247161
Soll ich denn mein junges Leben...
Aufgenommen mit HEINO auf EMI/Electrola
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 277409
Love And Marriage
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 290604
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 293745
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 278589
Kantate Nr. 52
23. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 292140
"Was sich den ganzen Tag so tut"
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 277121
aus der Oper "Zar u. Zimmermann" für gem Chor, Bsolo, Orch (Klav)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 276853
Walzer, für gem. Chor, Orchester oder Klavier.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 276851
Madrigale 1 - 4
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 293274
für zwei gemischte Chöre, ad lib. Instrumente colla parte
Sing- und Spielpartitur
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 274707
for female chorus and chamber orchestra to a poem by Sándor Weöres
for: Women's choir (SMezA), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274632
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 274460
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 268526
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 271125
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 267070
Wo's Dörflein traut
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273749
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 256464
Opera in 3 acts op. 32
Libretto from M. Vörösmarty's drama by the composer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 256338
for: 4 voices [mixed choir], (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255495
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255202
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 258285
Klassik
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 258171
a 3 voci miste con organo
for: Mixed choir (STBar), organ
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 258158
a 3 voci miste con organo
for: Mixed choir (STBar), organ
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 258157
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 260291
Oratorio A 6 Voci e B. C.
Ricordi - Musica sacra italiana (mit kritischem Bericht) (with critical report)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 259224
Oratorium
EMB Study Scores
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 256690
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 310873
Heft 2, für gem Chor u. Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 308029
für Sopran, Alt (auch chorisch), Flöte u. Streichquartett oder Orgel
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 308008
aus der Oper "Aida", für gem. Chor, Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307836
"O ihr Mädchen, zur Liebe geboren" / "Giovinette che fate all amore" aus "Don Giovanni", für gem Chor Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307813
für gemischten Chor, Bläser und Schlagzeug
for: Mixed choir (SATB), wind ensemble, percussion
Score
Item no.: 307557
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309616
Es war ein Tierlein
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271997
Plattdeutsche Choralmotette
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271943
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 555803
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