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.
aus: Fünf Lieder für gemischten Chor, op. 55 (Nr. 1)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4269
Weihnachtskantate für gemischten Chor, (Chor-) Solisten, Sprecher/-in, Ausdruckstanz ad libitum und Orchester oder Orgel (Klavier)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano score
Item no.: 661044
Offertorium der 3. Weihnachtsmesse
Psalm 88,12
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSAB, SATB); 3 cornetts, 5 trombones (colla parte) ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5429
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 498395
Choral aus der Kantate "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben", BWV 147
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3026
Wenn rot die Sonne sinket
for: Male choir
Vocal score
Item no.: 646547
aus: Aliquot Cantiones, vulgo Motecta appellatae (Nürnberg, 1577)
hohe Ausgabe (SATB)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5756
Irische Volksmelodie
op. 60, Nr. 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4622
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1436
Oratorium
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Oboe (orchestral part)
Item no.: 498991
(Nürnberg, 1608)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1464
aus "Ander Theil Geistlicher Concerten", Greifswald 1643
for: Mixed choir (SAB) [3 voices (SAB)], basso continuo; 2 violins ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3624
Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3001
nach der "Cantate zu Ehren von Joseph Spendou's" D 427 (op. posth.128)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), Male choir (TTBB), string orchestra, piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 647706
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Ausgabe in Es
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 668037
aus: "Psalteriolum harmonicum"
Köln, 1642
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4218
aus "The First Booke of Ballets", Londen 1595
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2436
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 497563
Oratorium
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single parts Trumpets 1–3 (B-flat)
Item no.: 498994
aus: "Evangelischer Blumengarten", 1666
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 4381
Aria
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 4462
for: Women's choir (3 parts) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 647278
Nr. 4 aus: Sechs Lieder für Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663316
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 646928
D. 80
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638585
Ausgabe A
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 498348
Collectio Cathedralis
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663804
Aus dem Oratorium 'Die Schöpfung'
Für gemischten Chor und Orchester oder Orgel allein
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 667420
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 635154
Freuet euch, heute ist Christus geboren - Offertorium Nr.76 in Festo Nativitate
Einzelabgabe ohne Chorpartituren nur mit Antikopier-Stempel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 662949
Faksimile des Erstdrucks
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 672414
Reduzierte Fassung
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Single part Trumpet 3
Item no.: 497602
from Glee
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 622461
Transylvanian Lament
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649457
Oboenstimme - Fassung 2 (kleine Fassung)
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Oboe (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670052
Luther-Musical
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Violin (orchestral part)
Item no.: 665152
Saint Benedict Cantata
Konzertwerk aus der Reihe Musica Sacra
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 659583
in Festo Omnium Sanctorum
aus: Promptuarium Musicum, Straßburg 1627
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 5410
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122338
(3 Violinen und Generalbass)
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 658781
für Sprecher, gem Chor und Instrumente
for: Narrator, mixed choir (4 voices), orchestra
Songbook (lyrics)
Item no.: 659196
– Nur in Verbindung mit den Chorpartituren lieferbar! –
for: Choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 624772
Musik und Politik
Musik & Bildung
for: Voices [children's choir], piano
Journal
Item no.: 656041
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 672544
für zwei Stimmen und Generalbass ad lib.
aus: Musae Sioniae, 9. Teil
for: Women's choir (SA) [2 solo voices]; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 2791
Festchor zu Advent und Weihnachten
für SATB, Streicher und Orgel oder mit Orgel allein
Streicherstimmen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 674380
Erfolgstitel der Gruppe "Wind"
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 245186
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