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.
Graduale in C
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237901
MH 826
Einzelstimme Vl. 2
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237759
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra; organ ad lib.
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237362
Requiem
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235421
Symphonie-Kantate
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235371
ZWV 84
Einzelstimme Va.
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235272
KV 243
Einzelstimme Vc. (Kb.)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235112
Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232726
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232677
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 232615
D 49
Einzelstimme Vc. (Kb.)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232266
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232241
Offertorium de venerabili sacramento
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 2 violins, 3 trombones ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234911
in due cori
Stuttgarter Vivaldi Ausgaben - Urtext
Violine 1 - Coro 1
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), 2 orchestras
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234764
Über die Nicht- und Flüchtigkeit des menschlichen Lebens.
Kantate zum 24. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Telemann-Archiv – Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234626
TVWV 7:30
Einzelstimme Vl. 1
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234588
CW E 5
Einzelstimme Vl. 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234478
"Wie soll ich dich empfangen"
Advent cantata
Stuttgarter Buxtehude-Ausgaben
for: 3 voices (SSB) [mixed choir], 2 violins, bassoon, basso continuo
Single part Bassoon
Item no.: 234354
Edition Peters Green Series
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 274952
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 171263
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Single part(n)
Item no.: 387072
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Single part(n)
Item no.: 387069
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 796845
nach Sprüchen aus 4 Jahrtausenden
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784908
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Violoncello
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676858
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Trombone 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 796851
Negro-Spirituals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 784729
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Flöte
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Flute (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676838
(Fragment aus Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Harzreise im Winter")
Bearbeitung für Altstimme, Männerchor und Kammerensemble
for: Soloist (alto), male choir (TTBB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Single part Viola
Item no.: 778377
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part tenor horn
Item no.: 1317011
Bearbeitung für Chor und Kammerensemble
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 778391
zu Liedern aus dem EG
Keyboard 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), rhythm group (piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, drums)
Single part Keyboard
Item no.: 673468
für vier Soli, gemischten Chor, 2 Trompeten, 2 Violinen, Violoncello und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 670440
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1018729
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1657281
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1354940
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355014
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355079
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355126
"Jubiläumsmesse / Rupertimesse"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355175
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 1544887
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Flute
Item no.: 1545133
for St. Cecilia's Day
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 488638
for: Choir, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1560532
New Completion
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1340590
Kantate Nr.73 für den 3. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo (Organ)
Item no.: 640894
für gem Chor, Orgel, Soli ad lib
for: Choir
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 644666
Oratorium
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Horn (F)
Item no.: 499001
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