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 (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1617029
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 833481
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1147337
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125651
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097018
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907912
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116052
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917005
Balancing Life and Work for the Modern Music Professional
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151608
Gentry Publications
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003338
An Easter Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160143
From "Five Rounds On Famous Words," S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625832
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1621129
Waart gij daar / Ben ik het, Heer?
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904659
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117312
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609057
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873153
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001653
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085377
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909584
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1078002
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1011443
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153985
for: Choir
DVD (learning video)
Item no.: 1152884
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111583
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097500
Responsorial Psalm
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1157185
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126071
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156058
Frauenchor
Chorpartitur
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 884575
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110112
Cello
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1154815
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124931
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320547
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1621101
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1320512
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1352974
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959283
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823642
Klassik
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 838030
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324709
Pavane Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168753
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150935
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916737
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1138186
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1001532
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341680
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1058966
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