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: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1668576
Part. gem. Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 197163
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1667765
Ein Krippenspiel
Singstimmen
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1549554
for: Women's choir (SA) [male choir (TB)/ mixed choir (SATB)], organ [harmonium]
Choir score
Item no.: 769940
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Lyric book
Item no.: 1670913
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1203809
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1658621
Geistliches Volkslied aus dem 16. Jahrhundert
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667191
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192988
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 633215
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 497280
Bènia calastoria
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1689384
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602131
für gem Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 604174
Ruf-Verse-Chorcoda
for: Women's choir (SA) [mixed choir (SABar/SATB)], organ; parish, orchestra ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 616982
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 487589
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ, melodic instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1669314
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 331296
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 337258
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 369011
Nr. 1 aus: Drei Marienlieder op. 65
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1677271
for: Women's choir (SS/SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1044024
F-Dur MH 685
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1161135
Komm, Heiliger Geist
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655607
aus: Matthäuspassion
BWV 244,3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1665119
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655593
Nr. 5 aus: Spirit Songs. Five arrangements for choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671399
Nr. 4 aus: Spirit Songs. Five arrangements for choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676847
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 455749
Dialektfassung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1654930
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652725
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit (Deutsche Nationalhymne)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 613955
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 242636
aus "Hänsel und Gretel"
Chormusik der Romantik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1016938
Altdeutscher Liederreim
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 368565
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 213762
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1667815
for: Women's choir (SA), strings, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1682015
Nr. 3 aus: Sechs Lieder für Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1658625
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 578061
for: Male choir
Item no.: 1652838
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1652221
Nr. 1 aus: Sechs Lieder für Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1659791
Prisli sme Ku Tiebe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1158246
Krippenspiel für Kinder und Tasteninstrument
Chorstimme inklusive Solo
Erweiterte Neuausgabe
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Choir part
Item no.: 657287
Nr. 4 aus: Sechs Lieder für Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651859
Möge die Straße
für gem. Chor / Frauencor / Männerchor a cappella (4-stimmig)
for: Mixed choir [women's choir/male choir] (4 voices)
Score
Item no.: 584523
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