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.
My inspiration
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 774469
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 774365
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 774369
Tomo III
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 774387
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 774391
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 774374
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 774361
Affreschi musicali per coro e orchestra
for: Choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 774310
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 774304
testi tratti da filastrocche popolari e da poesie dialettali di Nino Costa e Sandro Cappelletto
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 774296
Spannende Lieder aus aller Welt mit Gestaltungsideen
für Kinder von 7-12
for: Children's choir (School class /music school group)
Songbook, CD, online audio
Item no.: 773300
Quintetto dell’Atto Primo
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 774300
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 774178
Musiche della cappella di Santa Barbara in Mantova
Giaches de Wert. Musica sacra VI
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 774267
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 774220
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 774214
di Avvento e di Natale
Canti a 1 voce per il tempo natalizio
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Music score
Item no.: 774033
Opera in Five Acts by Eugène Scribe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 774013
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 774003
for: Youth choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 773962
for: Women's choir, piano
Piano reduction (2 piano's)
Item no.: 773936
History and didactics
Ars Musicalis. Musica, Musicologia e Didattica 1
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 773876
(Chamber Version)
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSA), string quintet, harp
Score, Parts
Item no.: 765933
Monumenta Liturgiæ Polychoralis Sanctæ Ecclesiæ Romanæ – Nuova Serie 2; Horatii Benevoli Opera Omnia 3
for: Choir
Music score
Item no.: 773852
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 773712
Fête with a Prologue and 3 Acts
Symphonies / Versions of 1746 and 1745
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 773588
Aus Johann Sebastian Bachs Sammlung von Werken seiner Vorfahren Johann, Heinrich, Georg Christoph, Johann Michael und Johann Christoph Bach
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 773487
A Benediction
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 764832
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik 101
herausgegeben von Staatliches Institut für Deutsche Musikforschung
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 773510
Oper in drei Aufzügen
Instrumentierung vollendet von Antony Beaumont
Uraufführung: 6. Oktober 1996, Hamburg
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 773460
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik 95
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 773511
Psalm 84
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Cello (Double bass/ Violone) [Basso continuo] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 773500
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik Sonderband 5
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 773502
Psalm 84
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Choir 2)
Item no.: 773499
Das Erbe Deutscher Musik 2
herausgegeben von Staatliches Institut für Deutsche Musikforschung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 773488
Psalm 84
aus "Psalmen Davids"
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Choir 1)
Item no.: 773512
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 773442
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 773447
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 773446
Hanns Eisler Complete Edition (HEGA) I/5
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 773334
Hanns Eisler Complete Edition (HEGA) V/3 Critical Report
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 773328
Sacred Repertoire, Volume 4 – Motet and Sacred Song
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 773185
Sacred Repertoire, Volume 5 – Mass and Liturgy
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 773184
Alfred Choral Design
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 763315
Einsingsequenzen für Kinder von 7-12 Jahren
for: Children's choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 773202
40 neue Winter- und Weihnachtslieder
Partitur/Chorleiterband
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 773173
40 neue Winter- und Weihnachtslieder
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 773176
for: Mixed choir [5 voices] (SSATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 773049
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