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.
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 261241
Choral aus der Kantate "Ihr Menschen rühmet Gottes Liebe"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 247505
Oper in drei Akten
Arnold Schönberg – Sämtliche Werke 8,2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 278186
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 278165
nach dem Satz für gemischten Chor
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273537
Opéra-bouffe in 4 Akten
Spiralbindung
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 245988
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 275714
KV 38
A latin Intermedium of the Schooldrama "Clementia Croesi"
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Vocal score
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 281041
4. In der Sonntagsfrühe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280814
2. Hoch des Richters Haus in Kanja ragt
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280622
"Lieber Mann im Monde"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 280481
"Der Mond ist aufgegangen"/"Nun ruhen alle Wälder"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280341
2. Das Mädchen wollt' ein Freier haben (Ostpreußen)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280309
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 246237
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116094
Handschriftlich überlieferte Messen I
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 9
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115893
Messen des Druckes München 1589
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 6
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115890
Chormusik zur Passionszeit
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115829
Georg Rhau. Musikdrucke aus den Jahren 1538-1545, 7
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115788
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115767
Leonhard Lechner. Werke 11
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115737
Evangelienmotette (Evangelienspruch) zum 1. Adventssonntag
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115534
Motette
aus "Israelsbrünnlein"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115532
Motette
aus "Israelsbrünnlein"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 115521
Passionsmotette
aus dem 22. Psalm "Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen" (1950)
musica sacra nova
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115497
Epistelmotette zum 27. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115412
Blüte, Frucht und Kern, Heft 5
for: Women's choir (SSA/SAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115293
Psalmlied für Chor (stellenweise geteilt)
musica sacra nova
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116860
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116346
Neun Liedmotetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116323
Opera seria in three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext - Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) II/8
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116225
Motette zu 6 Stimmen (SSATTB) a capp. aus "Opus musicum"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 306938
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 306914
Mit Klav. begleitung
for: Women's choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307976
aus der Oper "Rigoletto"
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307921
für gem Chor und Bläser (Kontrabaß ad lib) Bläserstimmenset
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 307677
für Frauenchor
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 307173
for: Male choir
Ensemble score
Item no.: 307138
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 307135
Lieder aus dem " Gotteslob "
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 307053
Kirchenliedsaetze
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309179
Originalf. für gem. Chor, Bläser, Orgel u. Konatrb. ad lib, oder für Chor u. Orgel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308134
für gem Chor, 3 Pos u Orgel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308031
2 Weihnachtsgesänge
Österreichische Kirchenmusik Bd. 9
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 309570
Sah ein Knab ein Röslein steh
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309550
Über Wasser und Strand
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 309307
Weise aus dem 17. Jhdt.
Chorlieder der Meister Nr. 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 304467
Choral Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 605500
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