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.
Order of the Seder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1326266
Fred Bock Publications
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001379
Pavane Secular
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168636
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812206
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354131
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985521
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 778718
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985750
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326836
Transcontinental Contemporary A Cappella Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326294
Pavane Choral
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1168904
Fairest Lord Jesus
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 965327
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001706
Gentry Publications
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326875
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985505
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 926271
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001984
Part Two of Choral Variations on American Folksongs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898587
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965286
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167304
Der Thumbe Thor
Musiktheater nach Richard Wagners Parsifal
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1560122
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655708
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 888098
aus "Trium vocum cantiones centum ..." (München 1541)
Ausgabe für gemischte Stimmen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3308
Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello (String Quartet)
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150079
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1059359
complete operetta
for: Soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668074
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 877676
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SAB), bass drum
Score
Item no.: 850838
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950819
Aus Kärnten
für Männerchor (TTBB) a cappella
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1663970
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153805
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 909725
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950846
Show Band Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1122809
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 887747
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 962564
Halleluja, lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum
für gemischten Chor und Orgel (2 Trompeten, 2 Posaunen und Pauken ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 679200
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 778074
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761226
Chorus narration on the tale "Jorinde and Joringel" by the brothers Grimm
for: Women's choir (SSSSAAAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760362
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755718
for mixed choir a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 751479
op. 49/4
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1539022
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 882552
Denkmäler Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik Serie II/ 10
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 643864
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