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.
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799199
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799198
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799179
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799113
Discovery Level 2
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799112
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799035
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 799027
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798899
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798889
Judith Clurman Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798883
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798787
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798701
(Choral Medley)
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798696
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798662
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798506
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 798102
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801081
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802469
Discovery Level 2
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802467
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801053
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801046
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801039
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800449
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800204
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802573
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802464
Discovery Level 2
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802154
Contemporary Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802119
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802027
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801888
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801882
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801836
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir (3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801741
Act I Opening
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801563
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801553
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801513
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801387
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801335
Selected and Recommended by Jo-Michael Scheibe
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801067
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800797
from Tangled
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800687
from Something Rotten
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800675
Level 1 Mixed, Part-Learning CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815417
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965167
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 965135
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 964984
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965182