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.
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344241
Guitar
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1153928
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1341450
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 884287
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1100113
pour chœur mixte a cappella ou chœur féminin (ou maîtrise) et quatre instruments à vent (ou orgue)
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 865170
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330405
S.A.T.B A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625624
2 Flutes, 3 Trumpets, Timpani, 10 Handbells
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150771
2 Trumpets
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155356
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1172129
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1194051
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915173
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628348
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097627
Music for the Eucharistic Introductory Rite
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1150330
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101323
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330295
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 922159
Für sechsstimmigen Chor
(Besorgungsartikel)
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 673813
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911190
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1173551
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913306
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1212547
Trumpet
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155001
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097227
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905777
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908032
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 835785
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915011
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154367
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121603
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 835048
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1156869
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 877766
Flute, Oboe, Cello
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1158595
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 926180
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324504
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985834
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 886365
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 911743
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959482
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 870887
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 952556
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 882336
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953609
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1160624
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1176416
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