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.
Oh the holly bears a berry
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 686926
12 specially commissioned choral arrangements
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 370948
Ein traditioneller "Carol", abwechslungsreich bearbeitet für Chor (SATB), Klavier und Schlagzeug
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Score
Item no.: 361608
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 638741
Luke 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1087069
for two-part choir and piano (Glockenspiel ad libitum)
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 679913
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678418
Discovery Level 1
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 777431
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 768056
A Medley of Carols
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (3 voices), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696645
Traditional Carol
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745950
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 317328
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933354
A Seasonal Fanfare
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 945558
12 sparkling arrangements
The Novello Choral Programme
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 558382
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124022
SAB / Pf 4 Hands
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 pianos
Score
Item no.: 185872
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532615
Arrangement for organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1478480
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 669180
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 778011
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 744859
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813882
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805843
Holiday medley
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 673399
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812853
A Capella
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810421
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809706
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811287
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 810808
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808145
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804491
(ShowTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803236
A Christmas Carol (Hungarian folksong)
Magyar népdal
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822487
Weihnachtliches Spiritual
– Nur in Verbindung mit den Chorpartiturn lieferbar! –
Klavierbegeleitung passt zu gemischtem Chor, Frauenchor und Männerchor
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 294198
Discovery Level 2
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566716
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1015214
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653299
Anglo Music Midway Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 975347
Konzertwerk
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906784
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 554152
Shepherds left their flocks a-straying
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 458647
Sing this night, for a boy is born in Bethlehem
Unison version
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 343164
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano [concert band, string orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 744858
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745225
Boosey & Hawkes Winter Music for Developing Choir
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 695620
24 Carols for Concerts
für gemischten Chor (SATB), Klavier, Orgel und kleines Orchester
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 663647
for SATB choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 469799
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