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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320360
Festival Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816725
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923557
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1171341
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 889701
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960408
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1142106
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937866
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 863937
Best of My Love/I Feel the Earth Move/Ain't No Mountain High Enough
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823314
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1171350
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959900
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330266
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320553
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320516
Bb, Trumpet, Bb Clarinet or Flute, Oboe, Violin
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150463
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326161
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110840
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147900
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1177465
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117102
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1118256
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916489
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915924
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913753
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153169
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142450
Handbells
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1153094
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905266
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 877017
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1148075
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952968
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906914
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913727
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342180
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155222
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328210
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097654
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121981
für Soli, Chor und Orchester Klavierauszug (lt)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Item no.: 645509
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959370
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1170562
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932064
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937870
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960036
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147991
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328191
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907796
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