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.
Ionian mode
Latin Church Music of the Polyphonic Schooös
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 304138
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 294589
7 Poems of Jean Sasse
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Book
Item no.: 271155
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 255682
Old Latin students' song
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255639
Rózsa-madrigál
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255351
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256617
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256592
Psalm 130
130.zsoltár
for: Mixed choir (SSSMezAAATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256215
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 259285
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 259097
Die Belagerung von Korinth
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 258976
A 2 Voci Pari Con Organo
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 257648
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 257643
Oper/Operette
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 257492
nach der Henle-Gesamtausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 310660
nach der Henle-Gesamtausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 310658
2stg. mit Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307975
mit Klavier
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307953
aus der Oper "Lohengrin", für gem. Chor auch acapella, Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307837
aus der Oper "Der Barbier von Bagdad"
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307805
"Cunctipotens Genitor Deus"
für gemischten Chor a cappella (Orgel ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 307501
Geistliche Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (ATT) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309675
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309712
for: Choir
Item no.: 307154
Motette
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 307134
Drei Lieder
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 307124
aus Goethes "West-östlicher Divan"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 307042
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 306956
Majestic
for: Male choir
Item no.: 295631
"Frieden sei dieser Welt beschieden"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 296186
Ein Quodlibet der Geschmäcker
for: Mixed choir (4–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649122
1. Ei, steig auf · Aj, stupaj
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204014
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1545142
Oper in 7 Bildern
Paul Hindemith – Sämtliche Werke
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 696975
Handlung in 3 Aufzügen (1861 - 1875; mit Varianten) – Anhang und Kritischer Bericht
Richard Wagner - Sämtliche Werke 6/III
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 696306
for chamber choir
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 657722
Tempore Navitatis
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 969194
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167790
from Walt Disney Pictures 'Ratatouille'
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161774
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 840804
Opera in three acts HWV 33
Bärenreiter Urtext
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie II Volume 32
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765049
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 673038
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 689775
Sätze III und IV aus der Sinfonie Nr. 5 d-moll MWV N 15
Reformationssinfonie
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 660620
Doppelchörige Motetten aus Thüringen
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 680827
Osterkantate für gemischten Chor, Streicher und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 676172
Historia des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heilands Jesu Christi nach dem Evangelisten St. Johannes
Fassung mit Orgel- oder Klavierbegleitung von Arnold Mendelssohn
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 675867
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