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.
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805369
from Elijah
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804859
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804839
Discovery Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804459
2-Part and Piano
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804394
Discovery Level 3
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803846
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803828
Discovery Level 1
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803264
Discovery Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 801310
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 627413
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 348765
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815740
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815360
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815089
featured in Glee
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812997
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812205
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810989
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810747
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809344
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805738
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804910
Show-Trax CD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 803711
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801944
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801252
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 638755
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 633129
Jazz Chorals
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803658
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803290
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 633427
from Oklahoma!
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106610
(from The Sound of Music)
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1106562
from South Pacific
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106557
from The Addams Family
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815736
from Finian's Rainbow
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814317
from Finian's Rainbow
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814251
from In the Heights
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813437
from The Music Man
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 812546
from Jekyll & Hyde
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811382
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808545
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 811754
SSA
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 556231
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814646
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811307
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808873
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808016
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807722
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806875
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805386
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