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: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 463347
for: Mixed choir (SMezATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 256502
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 362084
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 203591
Sound Of Norway
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 203499
Evening Service, Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 564143
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 482009
New Horizons
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 894519
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892419
Urtext (erste kritische Ausgabe)
for: Solo voice (alto), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679032
"Der Glaube; Wenn winters in den Nächten"
aus: Bühnenmusik zu Sophokles' "Edipo a Colono"
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 771480
Reconstruction by Klaus Hofmann
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1316888
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 232343
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560240
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 370919
Choral "O Jesu meine Wonne"
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 424208
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 424078
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455964
op. 1 Nr. 4
Chorpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 236923
Jazz
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1660198
for Double Choir a Cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1032022
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945216
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 930818
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930435
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935944
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935332
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 937055
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936832
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 933443
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932848
Jazz
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 936522
A Medley from the Broadway Musical
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764433
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 928676
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 934741
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904608
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910441
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900369
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899898
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 842884
No. 3 Long Time Ago
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 895807
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 107497
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 164527
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 576546
Einzelausgabe aus dem "Augsburger Tafelkonfekt"
for: Mixed choir, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 670836
An Exploration of Modes for Young Singers
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 868181
Orgelfassung mit zusätzlichen Stimmen von Violoncello und Kontrabass
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 767824
No. 2 The Younger Generation
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 900496
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 906930
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