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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 757832
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759316
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209080
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209085
GL 814 ö
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725760
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209088
(Czech Republic)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726409
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753815
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747902
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738480
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725817
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743502
1. "Tabak ist mein Leben"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 733430
Canon à 2
for: Choir
Music score
Item no.: 760241
(Chile)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756220
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759487
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747879
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760676
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725824
nach Ps. 96 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730064
Halleluja-Ruf: 175,2 ö und 643,5 ö
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755714
(Slovakia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726419
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741135
Text: Nach Georg Niege 1592; Mel.: 16. Jahrhundert (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753393
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760630
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760549
3. Die Jagd gehört ihr! "Und der Blick, der geht weit"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 751882
Text: Ps. 55,23; 108,5; 25,3 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730067
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755745
Weise um 1609
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742625
(Himmelfahrt)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737819
(Congo)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726398
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725858
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755746
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755719
Mel.: Leipzig 1573, bei Seth Clavisius 1594 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753397
"Ave, Marry"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730717
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 964993
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965121
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760447
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733556
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 735855
Volkslied aus Irland
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747897
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738798
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761229
"Ein schwarzes Vöglein fliegt über die Welt"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742632
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730045
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732697
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