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.
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857105
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856430
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856241
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 856079
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 855782
Conductor's Score & Cello Part
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 855647
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 855350
Motet a 12
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae"
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles, organ
Score
Item no.: 1355093
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1094381
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126403
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125782
Incorporating This Is My Father's World, Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart, and For the Beauty of the Earth
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123595
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123352
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123325
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123244
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 180916
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 455749
aus "Canzonets, Or little short songs for three voices"
London, 1602
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4282
Lore-Ley
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3499
aus FWV 61
bearbeitet für Tenor (Bariton), Frauenchor und Orgel
for: Soloist (T/Bar), women's choir (SSA) [children's choir], organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 2608
SATB w/opt. Brass & Timpani
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 859480
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 857374
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857266
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857212
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855484
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855376
Motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795679
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832048
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825352
für Frauenchor (SSAA) a cappella
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1666646
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1659869
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652039
Motet no. 2
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 491632
Régi táncdal
Dallama: 'Ungarescha' J. Paix orgonakönyvéből (1583)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 607796
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 586977
Oper in 4 Akten
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 581097
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 472331
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 472132
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476082
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 469352
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 462530
Oratorium Wtq 240
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 491499
Leuckart-Chorblatt
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 490703
Drei Chorlieder
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 432480
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 461424
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 443111
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 602316
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 559083
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