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.
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1127136
Motette
aus "Cantiones sacrae" (1625)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 882673
Melodram
for: 2 soloists (TB), children's choir, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 486850
für Sopran, Bariton, Knabensopran, Chor und Orchester nach Texten von Horst Salomon
for: 3 soloists (boy soprano, soprano, baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1696391
für Gemeinde, Vorsänger, gemischten Chor, Jazztrio und Orgel (oder Bläser)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, organ [wind ensemble], rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums)
Score
Item no.: 659457
für chor
exempla nova 601
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 663386
HWV 258
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 656562
18 fünfstimmige und ein doppelchöriges Madrigal mit deutschen Übersetzungen
Heinrich Schütz. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke 22
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 643652
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125489
Novello Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 550125
Novello Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 550123
1843-1893
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: Choir
Study score
Item no.: 689996
5 Songs for unsison voices and piano
for: Choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 113157
"Symphonie der Tausend"
Mahler - Gesamtausgabe 8
Nach dem Text der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe. Herausgegeben von der Internationalen Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft, Wien
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 113106
Titelmelodie zum gleichnamigen Film
(auch Erkennungsmelodie von Henry Maske)
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 185067
for: Mixed choir (SATB), wind ensembles
Study score
Item no.: 198751
Novello Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 248164
Novello Choral Pops
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 180500
Chorsatz Nr. 3 aus "Der Messias"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 236051
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1326972
für fünf Gesangsstimmen
Monteverdi-Gesamtausgabe Bd. 2
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 361686
für fünf Stimmen
Monteverdi-Gesamtausgabe Bd. 4
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 124503
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 406874
Cantata for the 4th Sunday of Advent
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 291351
Syngespil for solister, blandet kor og orkester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 683986
Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 196750
"Prager" Te Deum
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 196383
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 196382
Cantata for the Second Advent TVWV 1:301
Bäreneiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 426105
for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 552697
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 214958
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 392145
An Opera in a prologue and two acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 330349
18 leichte Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 467783
Liturgical setting of Sanctification rite
for: Solo voice (medium), mixed choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 284190
No. 1 of Two Hymns of Praise
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 275152
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935768
Biblisches Singspiel zu Lukas 14, 16-23
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 762210
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 343767
14 lovely traditionals from all over the World
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 496546
Adventskantate
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1651782
SAB or Three-Part Treble
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919412
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1651650
Lieder aus Disney-filmen für Kinderchor mit Klavierbegleitung
Liedtexte deutsch und schweizerdeutsch
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Piano score, choir score
Item no.: 272197
Ein Musikspiel in 4 Akten über das Leben der im Jahre 1236 heiliggesprochenen Elisabeth
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Songbook
Item no.: 245923
Folk
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944083
nach dem Evangelischen Gesangbuch EG
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish
Choir book
Item no.: 499737
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 686977
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