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 (SSAA), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1141524
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110933
Flute, Oboe, Cello
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1155542
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856197
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953096
Guitar
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150275
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110894
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342287
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925723
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1156542
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1109779
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155269
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959644
German folksongs between Jazz, Latin and Modern Art
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 757819
2 C Instruments
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160320
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959661
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092037
African American Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155539
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916270
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159280
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916109
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096910
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960472
Narrated by Liam Lawton
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1157058
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960175
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855849
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1086995
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916630
Trumpet 1 and 2 in B-flat and C, Trombone 1 and 2, Timpani (Brass Quartet with Timpani)
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1151742
Year B, Revised Grail Lectionary Psalms 2010
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1153795
for: Choir
Score, CD
Item no.: 855002
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918508
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342578
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915669
Flute and Oboe
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1157795
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092132
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1110179
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111021
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169253
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111125
SATB w/opt. Bells & C Inst.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919350
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085614
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325480
Alleluja! gelobet sei Gott, BWV 142
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1038879
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1328246
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925848
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