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.
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934697
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934644
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934632
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934617
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934598
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934546
Opt. 2 Clarinets
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934539
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933579
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933569
Orch.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 933531
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933524
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933482
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933457
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 933380
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933324
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933322
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933230
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 933204
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932962
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932960
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932951
from the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932828
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932701
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932606
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 932511
Great Composers in Song
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 847671
25 Unison Songs for Young Singers
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847560
A Practical Sight-Singing Course for Two-Part Mixed or Three-Part Mixed Voices
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 847471
Performing, Teaching, and Singing
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 847443
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 847247
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936666
Folk
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936658
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936650
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936647
An Easter Musical Drama
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936614
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 936593
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936586
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936583
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936517
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936501
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936460
Folk aus Osteuropa
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936447
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Book
Item no.: 936445
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936425
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 936418
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936409
Latin
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936406
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