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.
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122989
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041662
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815852
Oratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274625
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 856587
(Spain)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726420
in Adventu Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
aus: Musici Operis
Prag, 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4386
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 626406
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1160066
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760304
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1004881
SATB w/opt. Brass & Perc.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918593
Chorheft Nr. 7 - Weihnachtslieder der Reformation
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733358
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1059410
Bring and raise Offerings
Final movement of the Christmas Oratorio, op. 12
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665181
(Slovakia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726419
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169392
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154153
Christmas carol
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Choir (1 voice), organ [piano]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817147
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864875
Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano; latin percussion ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1014369
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965489
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169605
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965696
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965631
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169653
Swiss Composers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549533
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1203809
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965377
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1167779
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169482
10 neue Weihnachtslieder für einstimmigen Chor
und Instrumentalstimme mit Klavier
for: Children's choir (one part), melody instrument, piano
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1655017
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169568
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765975
A Celebration of Christmas in Readings and Songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965362
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985201
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125747
weihnachtliche Meditation
mit singenden Gläsern
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1011483
Tohter Zion / Kommet, ihr Hirten / Still still, still
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Partitur
Item no.: 1653117
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123456
African Christmas Greeting
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126507
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 759118
Motet a 15
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae" Nr. 25
Eulenburg Octavo Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs, wind ensemble, organ
Choir score (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1355115
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 649111
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 884447
from: Sacro Sanctae Dei Laudes
Venice 1600
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6305
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1151618
A Sacred Musical
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 1167520
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