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.
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 649815
From the Paramount Film "Holiday Inn"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 164397
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364568
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 473113
Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 354667
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 384921
Eine Kantate für junge Leute nach der Weihnachtsgeschichte von Charles Dickens
for: Children's choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 141647
nach Worten der Bibel und des Gesangbuches (Letztfassung 1963)
mit den Turmgesängen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 424855
Cantata for the feast of Epiphany
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 233092
Weihnachtskantate
for: 2 voices (SS) [female choir (SS)/mixed choir (SSB)], 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 279273
irisches Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653588
aus: Die deutsche Liturgie
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 186709
Kantate Nr.68 BWV68 Partitur
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 326554
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800154
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803805
Holiday Collection for Voices and Orff Instruments
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 810905
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235817
Deutsches Magnificat
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 234577
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660637
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 1634292
An American Christmas folk-song, for SATB and piano or orchestra
The orchestral accompaniment is available on hire.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [chamber orchestra]
Piano score
Item no.: 328370
Full Orchestra Version
for: Soloist (soprano/mezzo-soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 612850
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 601846
Five Carols for female chorus and piano
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 668272
A Medieval English Carol for Unaccompanied Lower Voices
Oxford Choral Music
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (ATBarB)
Score
Item no.: 460503
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 446773
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 377171
30 Arrangements for equal voices
for: Children's choir [Youth choir] (1–3 voices), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1689305
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803048
Concert Festival Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 660851
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 295672
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 777442
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 768055
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 797662
Discovery Level 2
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746366
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 746365
Choral Collection
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 687338
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771607
with See Amid the Winter's Snow
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532577
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 744978
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533098
Alfred Archive Edition
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 681498
Pachelbel's Canon mixed with Traditional Carols
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 678417
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695715
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1015364
Jesu Redemptor
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 485198
As recorded by New York Voices
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 764249
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 769802
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