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.
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 386327
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 389453
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 383038
für gem Chor u Orgel, (O. BibaJ. F. Doppelbauer)
Erstdruck
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 302266
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 63
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 360847
Opus 17/18 Surrexit Christus
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 429527
bearbeitet für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 323778
Ballett in 3 Teilen
Klavierauszug vom Komponisten - Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1316981
Motette für zwei vierstimmige gemischte Chöre
BWV 225 – Urtextausgabe
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for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 116726
Psalm 111
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), 2 oboes, 2 string orchestras, 2 organs
Piano reduction
Item no.: 362011
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 559530
Oper in drei Bildern
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 676177
Tragedia giapponese in tre atti
Opera Vocal Score Series (Ricordi)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 173707
Der Ring des Nibelungen WWV 86 D
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 392097
für gem Chor, Orgel, 9 Bläser, Timpani ad lib.
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 150267
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 286087
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos, harmonium
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558179
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 174154
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128094
German opera in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 694052
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 604561
Herkules auf dem Scheideweg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155423
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 389017
111 Highlights aus 6 Jahrzehnten
Die NEUE Songcollection für den Musikunterricht
for: School choir
Music lesson book
Item no.: 660058
Missa pro defunctis
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235424
Gospel
for: Mixed choir (SAM), guitar [piano]; bass guitar ad lib.
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1892
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 758510
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 758861
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
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659389
für Männerstimmen / for male voices TTBB a cappella
Kritische Erstausgabe / Critical First Edition
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 565009
Bicinium für zwei gleiche Stimmen
aus "Musae Sioniae", 9. Teil (Wolfenbüttel 1610)
for: 2 voices (medium) [choir (2 parts)]
Score
Item no.: 1725
(Lochamer Liederbuch, um 1450)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4432
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 497374
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1343898
Erstausgabe nach den Klosterneuburger Stimmen
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 484580
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 433096
for mixed Choir
No. 3 of three motets - Contemporary Sacred Choral Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 336956
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 280492
for soli, mixed chorus, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cornetti, 3 sackbutts, 4 trumpets, timpani and bc
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 615819
für Männerchor mit Klavier-Begleitung (oder Rhythmus-Gruppe)
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 269147
ZWV 145
Partitur
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 236195
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 555959
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671795
Anthem (from Sunrise Mass)
for mixed chorus (strings ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 606707
Offertorium de Beata Maria Virgine
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 463633
Choralkantate
Stuttgarter Buxtehude-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 462242
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 424407
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