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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100720
Flute, Timpani, suspended Cymbal
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1160079
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 954083
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156984
from The Rose of Calvary
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124596
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1085320
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1620922
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097396
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937878
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126608
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1007489
(Schlesien)
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733493
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341683
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328168
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1124776
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952433
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319959
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911113
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002585
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101541
Bass
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1156124
String Quartet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Flute
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1151388
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111412
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111419
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325576
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959537
S.A.T.B. and Piano
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626109
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126630
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110798
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960065
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326081
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096950
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952910
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121479
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 931632
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121588
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908909
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1142177
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925726
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110974
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319781
Oper/Operette
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925721
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1329003
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319603
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1342072
S.A.T.B., With Piano
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625635
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1110866
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100685
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