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.
Klassik
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 909753
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 907242
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906999
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 906864
Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905514
Choral
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 905379
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904083
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903219
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901491
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901140
The Huntsman
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900951
3-6 oct (level 2+) w/opt. 2 oct. handchimes & orchestral chimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856914
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856806
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856023
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855861
SATB & Organ w/opt. Congregation
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855456
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850704
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850623
Hinshaw Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898926
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 896145
No.1 Fiesta
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 892554
Southern Music
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 927924
Jazz Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815955
Con Te Parirò
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1316372
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315800
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315791
Aria from Turandot
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315789
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314783
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314771
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314757
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 623896
nach Worten von Gottfried Keller
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 623870
Version für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 622661
Version für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 622659
Version für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 622658
für Soli, 1-2-stimmigen Chor und Instrumente Partitur und Instrumentalstimmen
for: Choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 632065
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 621197
Kantate für Kinder- oder Jugendchor, Sprecher und Instrumente
for: Children's [youth choir], narrator, instruments
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 620502
Musikalischer Lebenslauf eines Vorbilds
für Sprecher, Kinderchor und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 673473
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670413
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670408
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Pop.Voxx Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670404
Pastorale héroique en un acte
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 669074
Kinder–Musical
for: Children's choir, piano, instruments
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1059316
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/6
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 634174
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/9
for: Choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 634126
für Männerchor (z.T. mit Klavier) Partitur
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 633858
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 633640
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