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.
Traditional (Samanthra)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 672221
eine romantisch-komische Oper in vier Akten
Kalmus Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633785
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 487905
op. 5/7
Bearbeitung für 4-stimmigen Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 562705
Lawson-Gould
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746386
from "Bring It On the Musical"
Alfred Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746345
Love Theme from "A Star Is Born"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746314
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746293
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746264
from "Smash"
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746261
From the Musical "The Wiz"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; winds, rhythm section ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746219
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746193
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746106
So Ben Mi Ch'à Bon Tempo
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano, flute, hand drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745897
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; flute, percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745876
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; double bass, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745870
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745856
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934332
Alfred Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 775938
for speaking chorus
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 494901
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 414636
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319247
16 choral pieces for mixed voices (SATB)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 603537
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 136139
Cantata for Michaelmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 280488
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487822
6 Traditionals
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 692625
1st Sunday after Trinity
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285433
Brünner Fassung von 1908
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 313830
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 577685
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 697067
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898211
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 163784
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 579974
The Banana Boat Song
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 485777
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1557019
Brookfield Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1091672
from Sweet Charity
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 492178
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 290481
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1174397
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985524
Opera in three acts after the play by Victorien Sardou
English version by John Gutman.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318165
Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319346
Nach dem kritischen Text der Kurt Weill Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 664715
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321924
New Zealand Folksong
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817949
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1611915
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 912698
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