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.
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116019
"Harmony Mass"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116436
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 396000
Oper in einem Prolog und zwei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352248
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 287201
Liturgische Kantate
for: Choir (1 voice), organ [concert band/ symphonic orchestra]
Organ reduction
Item no.: 288423
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 283405
Heft 2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 283393
Singschule ('Den hohen Herrscher würdig zu empfangen')
for: Soloist (bass), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284464
The Spanish School For 4 Voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 279964
Klavierauszug
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285562
Neuausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285494
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284963
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 284590
für Frauenchor (SSA) und Klavier
Sing&Play
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 280755
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 204045
5. Gram zernagt mein Herzchen · Hlavenka me bolí
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204022
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 204971
3. Lino, Leano
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204710
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 203691
Cantandos Klassikerserie 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203608
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203557
En Britisk Bukett
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 203556
Liturgische Kantate
for: Choir (1 voice), organ [concert band/ symphonic orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 203550
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203528
Bozener Bergsteigerlied
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203446
"Gibt es denn ein schöner Leben"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203402
op. 104
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 203274
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 357235
Psalm 147
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392281
Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392230
"Krönungsmesse"
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392163
Veröffentlicht auf CD: ERES CD-10
Kaleidoskop 47
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 389388
Singspiel
Kaleidoskop 2
for: Children's choir
Music score
Item no.: 389265
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 135669
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 135506
Ballet buffon en un prologue et trois actes (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 135500
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 135490
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 461712
Text: deutsch/hebräisch
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 136683
Die Heilung der Blinden
Mini-Musical für Kinder
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 134924
for: Women's choir a cappella
30 Chorpartituren
Item no.: 134781
Das Chorwerk 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 409603
für gem Chor und Streicher (2 Pauken ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 409578
Motette
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 409555
und andere a-cappella-Gesänge aus dem 16. und dem Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 409538
Leicester 1976
Europa Cantat
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 409533
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 403115
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