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.
Choral score
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 818212
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1099083
Voices In Harmony
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532924
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657036
Carus Contemporary
graduated prices on request
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 641597
Oxford Choral Songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 460492
Four Canticles of Praise
Oxford Scared Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 446653
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 920848
signed by the composer
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 771007
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 310968
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 687691
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 606230
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1551263
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551261
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1551252
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1551251
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1551250
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532922
Five Children's Choruses
öt gyermekkar
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255900
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 346804
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533046
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533005
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533004
Voices Rising Timothy Seelig Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533061
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1329214
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004509
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905880
Discovery Level 1
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019620
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 211832
from the Musical "Grease"
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746332
Traditional Spiritual
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745869
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 863490
Church Music Society
for: Children's choir (one voice), organ
Score
Item no.: 863647
Revised
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950988
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 471436
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 581511
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Item no.: 465108
Cantata for the Purification of Mary or 3rd day of Easter
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), oboe, violin, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233922
Dramatisches Oratorium in 11 Szenen
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (women voices)
Item no.: 493757
Bläserquartett - Chor
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Piano reduction
Item no.: 645825
Shakespeare-Sonett Nr. 18
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697503
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697075
Opera in two acts with progogue
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 868008
Choral music for all occasions in the original notational image, sorted by genres and themes
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for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 664593
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 658382
Coronation Anthem
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 658351
for SATB choir, harp and strings
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir, harp, strings
Choir score
Item no.: 663766
Pied Beauty
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 662612
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