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.
Coronation Mass
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 226131
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 135038
Sechs Jazz-Motetten
Staffelpreise auf Anfrage
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 138592
Passionsmusik in sieben Teilen
Erstdruck
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 247606
Operette in einem Vorspiel und drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 266022
Der DDR-Hit aus den 70er-Jahren arrangiert für gemischten Chor (vierstimmig) und Klavier ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 674457
Set mit 25 Chorpartituren
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band; organ ad lib.
Choir scores
Item no.: 618242
Kleine Orgelsolomesse in B
Hob. XXII:7
Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 154207
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 297290
tragedia lirica in due atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260591
Wenn der Frühling kommt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 366581
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 189430
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 185688
für Solo, Chor (unisono) und Klavier
for: Voice [choir (one voice)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 149704
German opera in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116416
Symphony of a Thousand
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124177
New Novello Choral Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 558380
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 409617
The Requiem, completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr, in its traditional form
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674935
(Stille Lieder / Silent Songs)
für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 478072
ten-movement version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 151752
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 491893
Reprint of the G. Ricordi, n.d. edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 183029
Comfort and Hope in Song
36 old and new songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 419513
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 181774
for: 2 voices [women's choir](smez), piano
Item no.: 137595
for: Women's choir (SA) [mixed choir (SABar/SATB)], organ; parish, orchestra ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 634545
Edition Schott
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 760495
exempla nova 052
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486058
A Motet in 40 Parts
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 337785
Lieder einer Messe für Soli, Chor und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 302303
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 147513
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 670396
Geistliche Chormusik aus dem 20. Jahrhundert für Gottesdienst und Konzert
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 470962
New Josquin Edition 11
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 769408
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 310872
Schott Kammerchor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 657724
for: Children's choir [Youth choir] (1–3 voices), piano
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 184184
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 608020
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 323074
(Set)
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Score, CD
Item no.: 581498
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663579
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1178341
The Beatles
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 363642
Walton Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985225
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 606242
131 A-Cappella Sätze von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart. Revidierte und ergänzte Neuauflage
for: Choir
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 148730
Psalm 136
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 386032
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