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.
from White Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768084
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768041
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 797490
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir a cappella
25 choir scores
Item no.: 693313
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924385
Novello Youth Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 141818
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648314
32 Lieder aus 13 Ländern
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 119572
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750010
Weihnachtslieder
Neue a-cappella-Arrangements für drei gemischte Stimmen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 215956
irisches Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 680822
(He is Born, The Holy Child)
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019632
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1349817
Complete Performance Resource with Audio CD and Downloadable Extras
Micromusical
for: Children's choir, instruments
Music score, CD
Item no.: 632101
Choral Now
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 1056872
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317779
including "Jingle-Bells"
John Rich Music Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 586687
19th Century Austrian Carol
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690728
Holiday musical for young voices
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 814547
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161311
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 797645
Accompaniment CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1326797
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798340
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799664
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765976
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806800
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810522
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812053
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800156
Traditional Carols
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745996
Arranged for choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 606518
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 896492
for Mixed Voices (SAB) and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 681497
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 618714
Death knell for a popular carol (for belles, bell-boys, and campanologists) für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 421865
Basque Carol
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 149503
Carol for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3239
18 traditionelle Christmas Melodies für Frauenchor und Klavier (Gitarre ad lib)
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 672082
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760289
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747948
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747949
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747951
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 909387
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747877
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343054
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672523
On December Five and Twenty
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 680032
Holiday medley
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 673398
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