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.
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 409627
"Das Leiden unseres Herren Jesu Christi nach dem Heiligen Evangelisten Marco"
für zwei Solostimmen (ST), Favoritchor (SATB) und Capellchor (SSATB)
Das Chorwerk 66
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (favorite SSATB, capella SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 409616
Geistliche Gesänge nach liturgischen Texten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 409574
Folkloresätze für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 409547
Choral Vivace: Upper Series No 16
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 562717
Oper in einem Aufzug
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 378938
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 378507
Oper in 3 Akten HWV 40
Gekürzte und bearbeitete Fassung
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 378373
Komische Oper in vier Akten
nach „Der Dreispitz“ von Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 378322
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 459733
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 459616
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 459245
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 373867
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 370887
(Psalm 130)
from Seven Gates of Jerusalem (1996/2013)
for: 3 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 636172
Wo Verliebte geh'n
Chormusik
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 678143
für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Schlagzeug und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), percussion, organ
Score
Item no.: 677683
"Schrobenhausener Vater unser" für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 675928
Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 658928
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik 95
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 773511
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 772614
54 auch mehrteilige Kompositionen, überwiegend zwei- bis vierstimmig
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik VII/15
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 772252
Richard Wagner - Sämtliche Werke
Reihe B: Dokumentenband
Band 22
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 772156
123 meist vierstimmige Liedsätze von anonymen und 20 bekannten Meistern des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 11
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 765659
Dramma giocoso in two acts
New Mozart Edition (NMA). II/5/17
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765420
für Frauenchor (SSSSAAAA)a cappella
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 675241
Vier Weisen nach Texten von Walther von der Vogelweide
(2014)
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 673123
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 673037
aus "Dies illa"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649087
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649083
Modern Festival Series MFS 316
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647817
Motette auf Worte des Ezzoliedes von 1063
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 647728
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 647727
Zwei Vater unser-Vertonungen (althochdeutsch/latein)
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 647724
"As the Hart Pants"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 637950
Streicherstimmensatz
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SAATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 637046
26 composizioni corali per coro a più voci
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 641657
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205750
Oper/Operette
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 263529
gem Chor, Orchester (Klav)
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 260990
KV 140 (Anh. C 1.12)
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 225585
Zehn Lieder gegen den Krieg
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 214636
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 213572
Oper in zwei Teilen (sechs Bilder)
frei nach Georg Büchner
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 260866
from "Songs of Peace"
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 247161
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 117623
Chormusik des 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117247
27 leichtere Sätze für Männerchor vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zu Gegenwart
for: Male choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117237
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