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.: 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
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
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985010
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907748
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923702
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110081
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142743
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126036
Gentry Publications
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001854
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1124974
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159385
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341408
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124691
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158781
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 1212158
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1173530
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1086025
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153898
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1153788
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326111
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326110
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097360
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324627
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909893
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324530
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317268
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, Timpani
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150964
dalla villanella alla cantata, Pian & Forte Vol. 202
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1163458
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 853448
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001866
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911878
2 C Instruments
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1157334
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002727
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341737
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092018
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