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.
Arrangement for organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1478481
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813298
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813192
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812860
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809873
MORE Activities for Classroom Instruments
for: School class
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 813558
Music Express Choral
for: School class
Choir score
Item no.: 812821
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663878
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807267
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807009
Discovery Series
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808043
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 948284
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1672715
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1209886
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Oxford Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 460538
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 581797
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317913
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 380516
Traditional English Round for two-part choir / SSA and piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679909
Traditional English Round for mixed choir (SATB) and piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 679907
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678432
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746081
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746052
Traditional Carol
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746048
Traditional Carol
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746047
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746037
A Partner Song with the Traditional French Carol
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano; hand drum, finger cymbals ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746023
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746018
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745967
Traditional Carol
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745955
Traditional Spiritual
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745947
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 489659
SATB Choir Book
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 556400
A folk drama of nativity based on the rhythms and traditions of hispanic america
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, guitar, percussion
Score
Item no.: 673500
Christmas cantata
Reprint of the first edition Leipzig 1892
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279324
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 321809
Gospelsong (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730159
The Splendor of Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 955824
Traditional Polish Carol
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670731
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1651781
Gospelsong (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730161
Fa-La-La-Cha-Cha-Cha
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660800
A Medley Of 4 Traditional Spirituals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; brass quintet, timpani ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1549509
for: Mixed choir, piano
CD
Item no.: 1015033
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125649
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682347
text from an English folk poem from Napton, Warwickshire
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736973
Christmas Carol
arranged for mixed voices (SAB)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2654
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