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.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 585520
Classic Pop 90's
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 660849
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 604216
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (Bar), orchestra, organ
Timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 370880
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SSA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579886
Kyrie und Gloria
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 237146
Oratorio
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 121394
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 176998
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 175828
mit Streichorchester und Orgel oder nur mit Orgelbegleitung ausführbar
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 279321
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 647904
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 602254
Novello Tudor Anthems
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 578234
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 556676
As Recorded by David Bowie
for Choir SATB and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 496783
Urtext
for: 2 soloists (SS), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 156151
and other works for choir and orchestra
Urtext of the Beethoven Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 243304
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 247756
Edition Peters Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 482962
Non nobis Domine / Nicht unserm Namen, Herr
for: 3 soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 235280
for two-part young chorus and piano
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 562943
Pop und Rock
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 494219
Novello Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 322159
Words from the "Missa pro Defunctis" and the poems of Wilfred Owen
for: 3 soloists (STB), boys’ choir, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 375673
Eine Sammlung von Chorsätzen aus Rock, Folk und Klassik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Songbook
Item no.: 201928
Unabridged republication of the work as published by C. F. Peters, Leipzig, n.d.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 416697
für 4-stimmigen Frauenchor a cappella mit Sopran-Solo
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 382029
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 633065
22 Stücke und Übungen zum Musizieren im Klassenverband ab der 1. Schulstufe
mit Videos und Playbacks online!
for: Children's choir (School class /music school group)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 664540
Tragödie in einem Aufzug von Hugo von Hofmannsthal op. 58
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 100551
Vocal Score
for: 3 soloists (SABar), mixed choir (SATB), children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288322
200 Exercises for Chorus and Solo Singers
for: Voice [choir]
Music score
Item no.: 271753
22 neue Jazz-Kanons
(Ausgabe mit CD!)
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 160240
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 308440
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 208389
Oratorio
MWV A 14
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470975
Operette in drei Akten und einem Vorspiel
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 139812
for: Choir (1 part), 2 descant recorders, piano
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 146441
Der Ring des Nibelungen WWV 86 A
Textbuch, Einführung und Kommentar
Opern der Welt
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 111563
Weihnachtsoratorium in zwei Teilen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 635715
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 563560
"Windhaager Messe"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 horns, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 228471
Orchesterfassung
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 246105
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 585649
Actus tragicus. Trauermusik
BWV 106
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233628
mit beiden Versionen des Magnificat
Lauda einen Ganzton, Magnificat eine kleine Terz abwärts transponiert
Musiche Varie – Musik des 17. Jahrhunderts
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 633323
für gem Chor und Streichorchester (1990-1991/2002)
Neue Studienpartituren-Reihe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 209199
for: Women's choir (SSA), 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 627266
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