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 Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 339741
Swing Down Chariot Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812654
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106569
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804650
Southern Music
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925138
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 923392
Broadway Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 340271
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122288
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 827051
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126044
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124544
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122632
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106554
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122517
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125546
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125588
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803286
Choral Library
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807494
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809336
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925285
Broadway Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801908
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801904
Vocal Selections
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 319119
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125673
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122664
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106608
Festival Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808215
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 584282
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 245326
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891363
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 628283
aus "Catulli Carmina"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280900
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280850
(Schlesien)
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280295
zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 647580
aus: Deutsche Sonntägliche Evangeliensprüche
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 646534
for: Mixed choir (ATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 643264
aus: Deutsche Sonntägliche Evangeliensprüche
zum 6. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 643889
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 647585
Liederkreis nach spanischen Volksweisen
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204379
(1724)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280640
"Das Volk, das im Finstern wandelt" (Jesaja 9)GeWV 62
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 204641
2. Am Morgen nach der Hochzeit "Wo seid ihr Lieben geblieben"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203718
(Schwaben)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203517
E dicca l'una sospirando
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 354263
A cautionary Tale f. Children by Hilaire Belloc
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir part
Item no.: 354778
Madrigal
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 354759
Cruda Amarilli
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 354266
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