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: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 377309
(Christkindlmesse)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ; 4 soloists (SATB), orchestra ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 366005
zur Advents- und Weihnachtszeit
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334827
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 334512
für Sopran, Chor, 2 Trompeten, 2 Violinen, Baß und Pauken
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 334461
15 festliche Chorstücke zu Advent und Weihnacht für Männerchor (TTBB)
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 131742
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 458511
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 133469
Neue Lieder für die Advents- und Weihnachtszeit
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 610463
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 198615
Weihnachtsmusical für Kinder
for: Children's choir, instruments
Instrumental parts
Item no.: 601464
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123054
Chorheft Nr. 9 - Am Weihnachtsabend
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1664296
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918179
2-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917936
Himmelfahrtsoratorium, Osteroratorium, Weihnachtsoratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
3 CDs
Item no.: 1018175
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1338767
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339896
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339827
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339538
vom 1. Advent bis Neujahr
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 605243
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 583354
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 627277
Ein tierisches Krippenspiel
for: Children's choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 618722
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 609167
Neufassung F-Dur (2012)
(Mengenrabatt ab 50 Ex. auf Anfrage)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 656088
Neufassung d-Moll (2012)
(Mengenrabatt ab 50 Ex. auf Anfrage)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 656083
für Kantor, Gemeinde, vierstimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel, kleines Orchester (Flöte, Oboe, 2 Violinen, Violoncello/Kontrabass) ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 679245
for: Male choir
Item no.: 361251
Responsoria ad Matutinum in nativitate Domini MH 639
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1668472
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340370
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3121
Auf Weihnachten
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 279185
Musica Practica 12
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 272529
aus: Magnificat - BWV 243a, 2
Es-Dur-Fassung, transponiert nach D-Dur
4 Instrumente colla parte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 235529
G/E
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 236044
BWV Anh. 160
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 234244
Choralkantate
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237838
MH 72
Partitur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 237794
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Paket
Item no.: 489689
(Trinidad and Tobago)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743678
(Portugal)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734228
Weihnachtsoratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385463
Weihnachtskonzert H 421 (1698-1699)
Französische Kirchenmusik
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSA) [children's choir], basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 377579
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 374700
Weihnachtskantate für zweistimmigen Kinderchor, Kammerorchester und Klavier (Orgel)
for: Children's choir (2 voices), Chamber orchestra, piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 635159
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 350390
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 344547
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