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.
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609867
GIA Hymnals
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1156334
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 737
for: Male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1345009
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150259
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 1040175
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125533
General Anthem for SAB Voices and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Item no.: 1627478
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857124
African American Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153176
Tenor Saxophone, Flugelhorn, and Trombone
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1157593
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816282
für SATB
Singpartitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1609859
Madrigal II nach einem mährischen Volkslied (deutsche Übertragung)
für gemischten Chor (SSATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677845
Upper Voices Collection
Egyneműkari gyűjtemény
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822755
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1157013
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 925885
for: Narrator, Children's choir (1-2 parts), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ; the parish ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 689667
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1038647
Christ ist erstanden
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904186
Handbells, Organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919560
Brass and Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 919078
A Sacred Cantata based on Early American Songs
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1123953
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 916201
Mass Settings from the Lucca Choirbook
Early English Church Music 49
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 769074
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 894804
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 869033
The Fugitives
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1625600
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 904142
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124676
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1634385
Harp
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1159600
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101255
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815816
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1583281
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041144
Cantor, Choir, and/or Cong.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918703
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927643
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125655
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 924512
with I've Got Peace like a River
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122813
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910450
Mark Foster
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125749
O Praise Jehovah from Vesperae, K.339
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040644
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123921
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 860029
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950560
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 855217
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