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.
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103172
Anthem for Mother's Day
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041230
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916088
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092148
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324730
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982755
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 913269
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126504
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111258
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126152
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891943
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 894618
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077091
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111473
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122258
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330475
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041284
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325519
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 873578
from Footprints in the Sand
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124477
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1123129
Test from Psalm 46:1, 11
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126577
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123165
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1122283
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122643
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825896
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 926158
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325642
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915768
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123084
Mass for the Immigrants
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, narrator, flexible ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 775019
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121186
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092215
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125826
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905915
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 902054
From The Peasant Cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103465
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103617
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 880076
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121495
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931659
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111804
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125789
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122418
Together We Sing Series
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126827
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125476
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317410
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110865
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