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.
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909584
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078002
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153985
for: Choir
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1152884
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111583
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097500
Responsorial Psalm
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157185
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156058
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110112
Cello
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154815
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320547
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320512
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1352974
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959283
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324709
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150935
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916737
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138186
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341680
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097167
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326197
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911187
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117348
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912570
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154067
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142498
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916993
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212521
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328185
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096952
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326019
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326150
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097249
2 Trumpets, Alto Saxophone
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1153623
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1136791
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1153899
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1172743
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1157300
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111107
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931530
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1159668
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325599
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915463
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324729
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212553
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115636
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329040
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121686