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.
Hob XXI:3
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697309
BWV 245
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116685
for Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Piano (Bass, Percussion)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 634744
A cycle of spirituals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662983
11 Anthems for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 371561
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 319324
Symphony cantata MWV A 18
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1641236
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [2 pianos, percussion]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 775546
UMPC Critical Editions – Practical Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 774788
Volume 1
17 pieces by Ešenvalds, Dubra and others
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 635248
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 866670
Collection of 23 invigorating songs
The Ultimate Gospel Choir Book
for: Women's choir (SS/SSA) cappella
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 131651
Petite cantate de chambre pour 6 voix mixtes ou chœur a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) [6 voices] a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335309
Rock - Pop - Evergreen für gemischten Chor (SATB)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 578493
For mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 374606
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), strings
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766724
exempla nova 25
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 311702
Drame lyrique en cinq actes et douze tableaux op. 46
tiré à part de l'édition critique
Durand Œuvres Complètes de Claude Debussy
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 685471
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 107558
Musica Sacra
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; concert band ad lib.
25 choir scores
Item no.: 687356
'Auch das Schöne muss sterben'
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 350903
Opéra-bouffe en 3 actes et 4 tableaux
1er et 2e actes
Offenbach Edition Keck
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607378
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 388543
Dramma giocoso in two acts KV 588
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116427
Totenmesse für vier Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
zum ersten Jahrestag des Todes von Alessandro Manzoni
Urtextausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378814
Opera in three acts
Critical new edition with the recitatives later composed by Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 103711
Einzelabgabe ohne Chorpartituren nur mit Antikopierpunkt!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 557772
Operette in einem Akt
Le Mariage aux Lanternes
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 444902
for: Male choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 275359
Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359732
Fragment aus Goethes "Harzreise im Winter" (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloist (alto), male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 157482
Arrangement for women's choir
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSAA), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 605266
Cantata
Chormusik des 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings [organ]
Score
Item no.: 117238
Bouffonerie in einem Akt
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 744882
Reduced Version
for: 2 solo voices (MezBar), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; trumpet, harp, kettle drums ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 174025
Operette Buffo in einem Akt
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 550477
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 987
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 581093
Eine rockige Reise durch die Galaxi
Gesamtausgabe
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Piano score
Item no.: 183581
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 111
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360854
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260622
80 ausgewählte Chorsätze für vier gemischte Stimmen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 279332
WWV 63
Fassung 1842-1880
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 614666
Aria aus dem "Klavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach"
bearbeitet für Chor (SATB), Oboe, Streicher (ad lib.) und Basso continuo
for: Mixed choir (SATB), oboe, basso continuo; strings ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2051
Schlusschor aus der 9. Sinfonie ("Europahymne")
leicht bearbeitet für Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2034
Rarita Musicali
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 169805
Opérette-bouffe en un acte
Offenbach Edition Keck
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 677519
Operette in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 297870
Melodramma in due atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 227425
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