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.
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745901
Easiest Tune Books
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 320316
Sacred Trilogy for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
Reprinted from Hector Berlioz Werke, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1900–1907
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 105761
A Musical Play
for: Choir (1–2 parts), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 223126
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633957
Cantique de Noël
bearbeitet für Sopran-Solo, Männerchor und Klavier
for: Soloist (soprano), male choir (TTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 3970
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1669578
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 690605
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343080
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532433
Christmas Anthem for Satb Voices and Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 869535
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103481
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 655111
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1559519
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 681186
Merry Christmas to You / Viele bunte Päckchen
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 662777
Mary's Boy Child
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 673824
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), organ
Score
Item no.: 1652413
für SATB (Orgel ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1652636
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649584
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798338
Lied zum orthodoxen Neujahrsfest
bekannt als "Carol of the Bells"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 6818
19th Century Austrian Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690729
aus: "Three Christmas Carols"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4740
18 traditionelle Christmas Melodies für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Klavier (Gitarre ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar ad lib.
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 672077
Weihnachtslieder gemeinsam singen in jeder Besetzung
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 691689
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1611913
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 556239
A Sacred Anthem for Advent
SATB choir, piano (with optional flute)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 656438
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769423
for: Mixed choir (SSAAAATTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 610320
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470396
"The Queens' Service"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 488038
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
SATB a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 429976
for SATB choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 429076
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 465122
Aus: Ganznächtliche Vigil op. 37/6
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 477420
from "Josua"
for: 3 soloists (SSA/TTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 235507
aus: Drei Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 343353
Die Krippe / The Manger
Oratorium
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 337591
aus "CoolSide of Yuletide"
Sounds of a Better World
mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probezwecken
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 658330
Basisausgabe
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Songs, Spirituals und Sprechtexten nach dem Lukas-Evangelium
for: Soloist (medium), mixed choir (SATB), narrator; guitar, keyboard ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 172042
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 162791
Cantata for New Year
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 217131
Zwölf geistliche Gesänge op. 13 Nr. 7 SWV 426
Motet on the Gospel text
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
– Graduated price on request –
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 232000
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 233079
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232953
Mit Akkord-Bezifferungen und Klavierbegleitung, auch a-cappella singbar.
Alle Gospels und Hymnen sind international bekannt und daher in Englisch.
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 631523
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