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: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 909554
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 909065
Christ being raised
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 908641
With a Wreath I Walk
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 907873
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907380
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906859
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899669
Estampa Andaluz
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 777237
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 777221
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 776738
Canciones espirituales polifónicas
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 775013
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324738
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 324709
für Soli, gemischten Chor, zwei Klaviere und Harmonium
Kompletter Stimmensatz für die Tasteninstrumente
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos, harmonium
Set of parts
Item no.: 676636
Paperback
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 642670
Schulmusical für Jugendliche ab 12 Jahren
Partitur mit Aufführungshinweisen
for: Children's choir, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 632918
22 neue Jazzkanons für gemischten Chor und Klavier ad libitum
(Ausgabe ohne CD!)
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 682206
Wie der Kaiser zu seinem Vogel kam
Set (Klavierpartitur+CD)
for: Children's choir, instruments
Piano score, CD
Item no.: 585476
Eine abenteuerliche Reise in fünf Liedern
Schulmusical
Der Kinderchor 9|
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 556209
Acht Chorlieder zu zwei Stimmen
for: Children's choir (2 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 431234
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920545
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920184
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893747
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 893442
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 892739
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891707
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891566
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 890566
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889294
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 687680
Church Music Society publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628378
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628322
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1032015
Oxford Chilcott
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 920877
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 920804
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920503
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920492
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920448
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920446
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920414
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920353
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920326
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920317
Oxford Chilcott
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920243
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894364
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894286
Oxford Music from Canada
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894206
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 893989
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