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.
Church Music Society publications
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893096
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765212
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 634711
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846725
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Performance score for winds
Item no.: 116872
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1651838
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339783
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339549
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339537
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 456037
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 801042
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 656474
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 656266
40 Songs and Carols for Christmas
for SA(B) and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 348279
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 948283
Edition Peters Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1019904
A Christmas Musical
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 948596
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1656107
Jazz for Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124994
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124836
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1057482
Chor & Orgel
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 122957
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 602314
A Celtic Christmas Celebration
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121228
Contemporary Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 934979
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322057
The Novello Choral Programme
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 311982
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 444966
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 444843
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1652953
Südamerikanische Weihnachtslieder
mit Gitarrensymbolen und rhythmischen Ostinati
for: Choir (1–2 voices), 1–2 flutes, rhythm section (guitar, bass, percussion)
Choir score
Item no.: 695475
Finlandia
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 479883
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 655289
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122747
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122188
from The Voices of Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126425
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126412
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1126135
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1125634
(StudioTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1126476
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 245357
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 637685
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965617
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809819
"in nativitate Domini"
organ version
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 207387
für Frauenchor (Kinderchor/Jugendchor), z.T. mit Klavier
Chorleiterband mit CD
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), piano
Choir book, Playback-CD
Item no.: 618246
Missa Advocata Nostra
"Harfen"- oder "Weihnachtsmesse"
Musica Sacra
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp, organ, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 200670
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1276411
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