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.
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813221
Choral
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 807737
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003050
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001974
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003288
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1023363
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1023355
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022373
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811722
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810739
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810367
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809503
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807964
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807419
Integrity Choral
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1330774
from Mame
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809221
Integrity Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330709
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804164
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811323
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 242906
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1043759
Weihnachtslied aus der Bretagne
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136798
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Oboe
Item no.: 291202
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1019915
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387957
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 796827
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1201245
for: Solo voice, women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1136782
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609547
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663532
für SATB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609914
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984809
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985306
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 647639
We've Travelled Far to See His Face
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano, tambourine, castanets
Choir score
Item no.: 1014338
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891560
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951420
aus Lieder mit Worten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 580618
Weihnachts-Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets, strings, timpani, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1160933
Heftausgabe
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 283461
Kantate
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Single part Viola
Item no.: 343268
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385524
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309680
Pastorella
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 309579
aus einem alten schlesischen Krippenspiel
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309495
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309404
Kirchenliedsaetze
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309136
für Sprecher, Soli, gemischten Chor, kleines Orchester und Orgel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308178
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