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.
Epistel-Motette zum Sonntag Sexagesimae
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869081
Choralkantate
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 882765
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925910
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923724
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911531
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1156773
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153452
Recorder or Flute, Tabor (hand drum)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151724
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825267
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152048
Bläserstimmensatz
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 674433
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002969
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1616043
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959546
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621058
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085385
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959484
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125210
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110036
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1043450
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043514
Libretto
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Lyric book
Item no.: 1105978
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1108897
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1108913
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111763
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915150
Preist diesen Tag der Freude / Froher Tag, lichter Tag
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751746
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621308
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122672
10 alte Kinderreime
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 755310
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 1110414
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937910
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914826
S.A.T.B., With Piano
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625601
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912072
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912677
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904890
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 884694
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1115706
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907467
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1319630
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097670
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 952302
Kantate BWV 129 – Trinitatisfest
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764838
Kantate Nr. 100
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 675074
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330000
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126263
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111224
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