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.
from Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Broadway Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 746244
Rejoice: Honoring the Jewish Spirit
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745763
Voices Rising
Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745401
(from Les Misérables)
ShowTrax CD
Broadway Choral
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745378
Discovery Level 1
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745334
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745325
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745304
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745121
Traditional Irish Folk Song
Festival Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 697629
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 691505
from Toy Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), double bass
Score
Item no.: 797748
from "Dear Evan Hansen"
Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 797745
Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 797730
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 797713
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 762093
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 762048
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 762026
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 761963
Pop Choral Series
ShowTrax CD
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 761958
from Frozen
Disney Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745617
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653154
Choral
for: Male choir (TBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633230
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566974
The Jonathan Palant
Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556187
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 649437
for: 3 soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1344471
Vocal version
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1008621
De Haske Choral Series
for: Women's choir (3 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 885869
am 27. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 229219
Nr. 1 aus: Vier ungarische Volkslieder
Winthrop Rogers Edition
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330475
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 425556
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Tenor 1, 2
Item no.: 432057
Judith Clurman Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533051
Paperback
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 1192888
Voices in Harmony
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1346555
Blessed are the merciful
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343429
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532886
from Curious George
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533127
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533121
Discovery Level 2
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019623
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017454
Zwölf geistliche Gesänge op. 13 Nr. 7 SWV 426
Motet on the Gospel text
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 425144
for SATB Choir and Organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1555967
from tick, tick... Boom!
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532734
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805295
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810368
Discovery Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808436
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803102
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