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.
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689540
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 689549
Sacred Works 2
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 689497
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689544
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 689509
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689552
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689546
for: Children's choir, instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 689306
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1639543
Ein Spiel mit viel Musik
for: Narrator, children's choir (1 voice), the parish, instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 689313
Ring-/Spiralbindung
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 689401
Boosey & Hawkes Winter Music for Concert Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 689407
for: Children's choir, clarinet, violin, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 689305
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 689299
Edition critique - Monumentales
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 688981
Volume 5
Edition critique - Monumentales
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 688986
Volume 6
Edition critique - Monumentales
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 688987
Volume 1
Edition critique - Monumentales
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 688982
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 689038
Voume 2
Edition critique - Monumentales
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 688983
Volume 4
Edition critique - Monumentales
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 688985
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 688951
from "A Ceremony of Carols" op. 28
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 688971
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Single part Trombone 3
Item no.: 688923
Sounds of a Better World
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 688964
Boosey & Hawkes Concert Music for Concert Choir
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 688975
Weihnachtskantate
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo; solo voice (soprano) ad lib.
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 688888
for: Men's choir [women's chori] (3 equal voices ), bell
Choir score
Item no.: 688797
for: Male choir [mixed choir]
Choir score
Item no.: 688794
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 688651
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 688668
Gedenkmesse
nach der Inschrift des Grabes von Nikolai W. Gogol (Jer. 20,8)
Schott Kammerchor
for: 8 soloists (SSAATTBB), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 688666
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 688677
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 1534849
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534877
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534879
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534890
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534893
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534857
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 688574
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534861
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534846
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534900
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534903
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534853
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534852
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 688610
Heidelberger Chorblätter
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1534872
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