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.
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235818
Cantique de Noël
bearbeitet für Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3203
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924385
32 Lieder aus 13 Ländern
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 119572
for SATB unaccompanied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655253
Christmas Collection
for: Mixed choir a cappella
25 choir scores
Item no.: 693313
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750010
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799664
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765976
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812053
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205755
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 896492
Eine Kantate für junge Leute nach der Weihnachtsgeschichte von Charles Dickens
for: Children's choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 1666827
Novello Youth Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 141818
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317779
Arranged for choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 606518
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 1653728
Weihnachtslieder
Neue a-cappella-Arrangements für drei gemischte Stimmen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 215956
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 800156
Holiday musical for young voices
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 814547
für Mezzosopran, gemischter Chor und Klavier
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 663411
A Cantata for Congregation and Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1559518
including "Jingle-Bells"
John Rich Music Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 586687
19th Century Austrian Carol
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 690728
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806800
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810522
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1161311
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 797645
Accompaniment CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1326797
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798340
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1349817
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 618714
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745234
Basque Carol
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 149503
(He is Born, The Holy Child)
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019632
irisches Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 680822
Choral Now
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 1056872
Aus England
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738241
from Nordic Christmas
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771068
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648314
with O Come All Ye Faithful, What Child is This? and Joy to the World
for: Choir
Item no.: 862776
for SATB choirop. 256; no. 7
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 587473
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 767650
Complete Performance Resource with Audio CD and Downloadable Extras
Micromusical
for: Children's choir, instruments
Music score, CD
Item no.: 632101
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 681497
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746035
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745995
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745959
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