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.
Pre-Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1153631
for: Mixed choir, organ
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 951856
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110937
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925728
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915834
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101410
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938118
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212588
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 985657
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910056
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122397
Quittez, Pasteurs,Old French Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1617094
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952939
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1002994
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952726
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326130
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1142269
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938296
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003189
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116053
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159969
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1621210
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124813
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097691
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914867
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101349
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 840681
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912798
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960222
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621192
Volume 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1151253
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925749
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124624
Studiotrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 824721
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155809
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117187
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 960101
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159062
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913553
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1001760
Klassik
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1540468
für TTBB und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1608289
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110664
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628344
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1100793
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126306
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960357
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