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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 758861
Gospel
for: Mixed choir (SAM), guitar [piano]; bass guitar ad lib.
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1892
(Lochamer Liederbuch, um 1450)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4432
Edition Schott
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 760495
from "Songs for Gospel 2"
for Choir (SATB), solo Voice, Piano (Guitar, Bass, Drums ad lib.)
for: Soloist, mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass guitar, percussion ad lib.
Score, audio files
Item no.: 8006
for: Mixed choir (SATB), rhythm section [piano]
Piano score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 8043
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 749269
Skolie, aus dem Griechischen
Hob. XXVc:3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)], piano
Score
Item no.: 3514
aus der Oper "Der Freischütz"
for: Male choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1679
aus "Romanzen und Balladen für gemischten Chor", op. 146 (Nr. 3)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4596
MH 213/1, für Chor und Basso continuo
aus: Responsoria ad quatuor Evangelia in Solemnitate Sanctissimi Corporis Christi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 2877
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261849
Bearbeitung für Kammerorchester (arr. J. Linckelmann)
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1340497
from: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4184
(Forest Ranger)
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 729399
aus: "Sacrae Cantionies Quinis Vocibus Concinendae..."
Venezia, 1605
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4266
aus "Sechs Lieder im Freien zu singen", op. 59
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1304
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2497
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375293
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375176
from: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4554
op. 50
für Orchester und Chor ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3279
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375657
aus: Sieben Lieder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1338304
Gefangenenchor aus der Oper "Nabucco"
Bearbeitung für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (pdf download)
Item no.: 2647
Song for Female Choir
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 4645
Ein Veilchen auf der Wiese stand
for: 2 voices (SMez) [women's choir]; piano ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 4892
SWV 372, aus: Geistliche Chor-Music
Dresden 1648
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo; 5 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6379
for: Soloists, Mixed Choir (SATB), String Quintet, Organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1479746
aus: Drittes Zehn Neuer Geistlicher Arien
Mühlhausen 1662
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3904
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1270023
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2961
from "Songs for Gospel 3“
for Choir (SATB), Piano (Guitar, Bass, Drums ad lib)
for: Soloist, mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass guitar, percussion ad lib.
Score, audio files
Item no.: 8020
Gospel
for mixed choir (SATB) and piano / organ ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1909
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742735
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743199
4. Wales: Gwenllian
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 748785
Johnny Come Down To Hilo
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728135
Notendownload A Cappella Gospelsong
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642701
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 743824
Gospelsong (Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 744580
Gospelsong (Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730164
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759487
Spiritual (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730167
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760250
A Cappella Notendownload für SATB Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642695
Anthem
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 6439
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760253