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.
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Book
Item no.: 831965
Disney Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1677234
Oratorio in Three Parts HWV 56
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1669205
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 216042
for: Women's choir (SA/SSA) [mixed choir (SAB/SATB)], piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass guitar, percussion) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 565228
for: Women's choir (SA/SSA) [mixed choir (SAB/SATB)], piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass guitar, percussion) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 431939
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 490829
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 122938
for: Choir
3 Choir books (Hardcover)
Item no.: 822459
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820540
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777310
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 361752
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341823
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 858101
for mixed choir (SABar) and Organ
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Score
Item no.: 617354
from Walt Disney Pictures Tarzan
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 487742
Winthrop Rogers Festival Series
Piano part for rehearsal
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 634993
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 295995
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 604318
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564544
Cantata for the 1st Sunday after Epiphany BWV 32
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232896
from "Songs for Gospel 4"
for Choir (SATB) and Combo (Piano / Guitar / Bass / Drums)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score, choir score, audio files (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 8025
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815728
Choral Suite
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 340008
This 1969 pop hit by Dusty Springfield is set in a smoky gospel blues. It's a perfect feature for showchoir!
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 473073
for female choir and water-tuned glasses
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA), glass harmonica
Choir score
Item no.: 634637
Der Herr ist mein Hirte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 607969
Gospel
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5003
Cantata for St. John’s Day
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232779
Ballads
Neue Chorarrangements für drei gemischte Stimmen
mit leicht spielbarer Klavierbegleitung
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 431571
Der Welterfolg aus „Sister Act“ (ohne Solo)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 482735
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695256
Novello Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 633560
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333286
Passio secundum Joannem. Traditionelle Fassung (1739/1749)
Carus Choir Coach
Übe-CD für Chorsänger (Ausgabe für Sopran)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 672456
Passionsmusik
Urtext Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Favorit choir (SATTB), orchestra; chapell choir (SATTB) ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 154529
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1690351
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [keyboard/guitar]
Piano score
Item no.: 1660808
für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB), Streichquartett und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 676619
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), organ
Score
Item no.: 1552723
Sonntag Estomihi
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285521
Abendlob
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 151245
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 697544
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 686692
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 606803
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 488700
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 612174
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 626756
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