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.
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 744997
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 744957
from Coco
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 744942
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 744837
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 697636
Inclusive Songs for Whole-group Singing
for: School choir, piano
Score, online audio
Item no.: 697611
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697608
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 612019
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 659860
1963 pop hit by the Beach Boys arranged for 2 part Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 658263
Hinshaw Concert
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 636924
Nr. 7: It was a lover and his lass - Ein Bursche und sein Mädel schön
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 623282
No. 4 of "Four Advent Introits"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ, handbells
Score
Item no.: 628270
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 616695
Glory to thee, my God, this night
for mixed chorus und organ (strings)
score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 630072
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811701
Choral Mash-Up from Glee
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813001
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814998
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814714
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813284
from GLEE
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813224
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 812444
Sacred Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812398
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812186
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812113
Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815751
Choral
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 815742
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814140
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814449
New Zealand Folksong
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817948
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805631
Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805580
Lessons and Reproducible Activities for the Music Classroom
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 805251
Children's Songs and Games from England
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 804560
Multicultural Collection of Partner Songs and Canons
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 804326
An International Holiday Celebration
for: School class
Set of parts
Item no.: 807273
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806974
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806485
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806323
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 806261
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803981
Choral
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 803657
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806120
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 805873
Sequential Sight-Reading in the Choral Classroom
Teacher Edition
for: School choir
Teacher's manual, online audio
Item no.: 796614
from "Saving Private Ryan"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 780625
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663178
Contemporary Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811499
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