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.
Das große Chorbuch für gemischte Chöre
Chorleiterband
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 495276
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 602348
1892
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 443510
Operette in 2 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 102763
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602055
KV 427 (417a)
Klavierauszug (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 116531
Indianas No. 2
Latin American Choral Series
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 479249
am Palmsonntag oder am Fest Mariae Verkündigung
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 344592
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 194141
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Score
Item no.: 106945
Die Hochzeit des Figaro
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392108
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374786
for: Choral
Item no.: 1562365
Ten 2-Part Reproducible Concert Chorals
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Buch + Online-Audio
Item no.: 1655765
Opéra-bouffon in 2 Akten und 4 Szenen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 282561
First critical edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ [harmonium] ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684481
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 voices (SA), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 154250
The Beatles
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 431829
Reprint of the G. Ricordi & Co., Milan, 1893 edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 229266
Zwei Vater unser-Vertonungen (althochdeutsch/latein)
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670728
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
Hal Leonard Concert Band Series
for: Choir, concert band; strings ad lib
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681577
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 463471
Messkomposition für Solo-Sopran, großen gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) und Band
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), violin, bandoneon [accordion], piano, double bass, drumset, percussion
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 674823
Trinitatismesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 667297
Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 466892
Deutsche Volkslieder für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 460809
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 188253
Sammelband; Die Motetten von Johann Ludwig Bach nehmen innerhalb ihrer Gattung eine herausragende Stellung ein. (Collection)
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 193770
Zarzuela en un acto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1097922
Pfingstsequenz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 234930
Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233049
Urtext based on the Complete Edition “Jean Sibelius Works” (JSW)
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340707
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 656576
Melodramma in quatro atti
2nd version (Paris 1865)
Opera Vocal Score Series (Ricordi)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389024
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 223901
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1070235
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 185471
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
Complete orchestral material
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 685549
completed and edited by Frieder Bernius & Uwe Wolf
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665327
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931515
Commedia in due atti
Version in Italian and German
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558176
Christina Stürmers Hymne an die Menschlichkeit 2016, auch gern als Hochzeitslied gesungen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 778728
for: Mixed choir, piano
Chorbuch (Spiralbindung)
Item no.: 479692
Oratorium Hob. XXI:2,
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234
Traditional
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 775347
Orgelfassung mit zusätzlichen Stimmen von Violoncello und Kontrabass
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 767530
Die Carus-Neuausgabe dieses Werkes enthält die Chorfuge Nr. 6, die in Mendelssohns Autograph zu finden ist und auch bei der Uraufführung musiziert wurde.
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 205041
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