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.
Kantate zum Ratswechsel in Leipzig
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 583535
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 580615
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 580610
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 576778
Missa pro defunctis
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 565115
Süßmayr-Version
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 565036
Kantate für den 6. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 559902
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 559884
Rorate coeli desuper
Missa Nr. 3 in G
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 236553
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 236277
MWV A 3
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 236253
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 236214
aus: Drei Responsorien zum Totenoffizium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; 3 solo voices (SAT) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 236181
Kantate zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 233563
Kantate zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233561
Bestimmung unbekannt
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 233509
Kantate zum 22. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 233416
Kantate zum 4. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233327
Cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 232938
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 154019
für Singstimme (Soli / Chor) und Orgel (teilweise mit Instrumenten)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 153827
nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
op. 45
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 153292
aus: Responsoria in Coena Domini MH 276, 1 und 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 151514
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 150330
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 148552
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 145919
für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 145118
Nicolai-Messe Hob. XXII:6
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 134956
aus: Vier doppelchörige Gesänge
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 132982
aus: Israelsbrünnlein
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 131342
aus: Israelsbrünnlein. Geistliche Madrigale
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 131316
Kantate zum 8. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 279222
aus: Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 277229
für Doppelchor SSATTB/ATB und Bc ad lib
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 248249
Quattro pezzi sacri Nr. 3
enthält auch: Johannes Brahms: "Adoramus te"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Organ score
Item no.: 245234
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 241600
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 237126
Schöpfungsmesse
Hob. XXII:13
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 236622
komponiert zur Beerdigung des Rektors der Thomasschule, Johann Heinrich Ernesti, am 20. Oktober 1729
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); orchestra ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 234084
Kantate zum Sonntag Sexagesimae
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 233991
Cantata for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233788
Bestimmung unbekannt
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233757
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 melodic instruments, organ; bass ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231024
F major
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1043856
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
CD
Item no.: 1018177
Ultima Verba Psalmi 23
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1017420
B flat major
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1160630
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1136544
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