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 (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586905
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586902
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586895
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586894
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586870
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586866
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586860
Trauermarsch
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586745
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586739
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586735
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586728
Fassung für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586722
Kantate für Kinder
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185030
Musik Aus Ostbayern 60 B
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 183605
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 178273
Heitere Tiergeschichten zum Singen. Sie können eine Musikstunde oder Chorprobe auflockern oder im Konzert auch als Zugabeeinfach Spaß machen.
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), piano [keyboard], rhythm group
Choir score
Item no.: 231483
Ein Singspiel über 1. Mose 3
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 231451
Ein Singspiel nach Motiven der Noahgeschichte aus 1. Mose 6-9
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, narrator, keyboard; melodic instruments, rhythm instruments ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 231441
Ein Singspiel über Johannes 11,1-45
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 231401
Zehn Sätze für Kinderchor
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 231213
Kleine Kinderkantate von der Arche Noah
for: Children's choir, instruments
Instrumental score percussion
Item no.: 231151
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 162314
Musik der "Swinging Islands"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 157991
Neue Kantaten Aus Hannover
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 443423
Blues-Variationen für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 472763
Kaleidoskop 59
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 389403
Chorzyklus, als Einzelnummern auch aufführbar
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 136153
Leichte Chorlieder für allerlei Geselligkeit
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 332894
Showcase
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 347655
Potpourri
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 350507
for: Voice [choir], piano
Item no.: 433655
für drei gleiche Stimmen (SAA), Orgel oder 3 Klarinetten
for: Women's choir (SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 160688
Gesänge zur Begräbnisfeier
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 174390
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592370
für sinfonisches Blasorchester und Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 592240
Blasorchester
for: Male choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592168
Bestimmung unbekannt
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233757
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1337059
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1337056
Eine Geschichte aus dem Morgenland - Musical für 7- bis 12-Jährige
Klavierpartitur
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 488119
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 473407
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 472139
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121354
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121299
Dale Warland Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901628
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901251
(VoiceTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899403
Jameson Marvin Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898838
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