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.: 923858
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156081
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111031
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330272
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117289
Southern Music
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927259
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 876331
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110080
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324784
2 Trumpets in C and Bb and 2 Trombones
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1157796
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931284
In E Flat
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110601
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1117504
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628236
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1147937
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1102358
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116066
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100665
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 964393
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912083
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 952241
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1057160
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110692
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984749
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111068
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924004
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915380
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326153
Pavane Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168418
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953406
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110944
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117258
NACCC Hymnal Accompaniment Edition, in two volumes
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1156447
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168840
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325751
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154260
2 C Instruments
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1154970
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931330
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916625
Folk aus Osteuropa
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914998
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937898
GIA Guitar Part
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157709
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913869
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1151109
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 858305
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 898551
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931767
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916345
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