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.
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121119
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159462
SATB w/ opt. Flute or Oboe
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857012
3-5 Oct. w/opt. 7 handchimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857431
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1094932
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 887491
Five children’s choruses to poems by Gizella Sulyok
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 850335
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040855
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 873776
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123868
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 860491
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 859326
Rainbow
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902162
Str. 1: aus den Psalmen 55, 108,25; Str. 2: Klaus Heizmann)
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743645
German comic opera in one act with a libretto by Hugo Wittmann after a Persian fairy tale
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1343986
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125964
3-6 oct.
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 859826
Christe, du Lamm Gottes
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAM), the parish, flute, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 690121
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1155692
Flute, Oboe, Cello
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150937
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982717
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 908252
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041428
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832070
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950708
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866384
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857043
with How Firm a Foundation
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169415
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1156286
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897032
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1154369
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901807
From The Cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950127
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1279
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 851007
Text: Graduale Romanum
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741349
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 884174
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857070
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1150761
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 918652
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951482
Come to me, O Jesus, my love
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1159520
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 882006
SATB (Divisi)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856301
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857044
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 864616
SATB & 2 Flutes
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918540
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 910356
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