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 ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931769
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328192
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158863
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040689
The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1158760
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905222
Choral Selections
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816275
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923528
naar psalm 147, 34, 148
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908892
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931609
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915745
Hinshaw Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1056928
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905756
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908214
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1172976
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 189910
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 984499
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812420
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916424
Oper/Operette
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915911
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908864
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907244
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1173328
Medley
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 229035
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1169131
Harmonia-Gospel Music
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931110
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 917011
met accoorden begeleiding
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914455
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907961
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905532
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169212
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931062
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913860
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905721
Harmonia-Popular Music (lichte muziek)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905654
Harmonia-Popular Music (lichte muziek)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 766144
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931514
Oper/Operette
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931353
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906098
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816283
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916262
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058246
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1085370
Methodology Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813139
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897001
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Organ score
Item no.: 395416
Medium Voice in A
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 820644
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317789
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