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.
Kantate zum Sonntag nach Weihnachten
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 605253
Mass with Christmas hymns
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 561385
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 472575
Ein kleines Singspiel zur Advents- und Weihnachtszeit
for: Children's choir, piano
Score, Audio-CD
Item no.: 472392
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 463398
Musik Oberschwaebischer Kloester
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 491189
Mitternachtsmesse zu Weihnachten
Urtext-Ausgabe – Musique sacrée française
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 678030
Neapolitanisches Volkslied
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 186246
Brieger Christnacht 1944
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 177431
Für Solo, Frauen- oder Jugendchor und Klavier
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 658441
Liedkantate
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 555491
for: 4 voices (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 772327
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 770272
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 230255
Die Krippe / The Manger
Oratorium
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 229930
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 371393
for: Mixed choir (SAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 351192
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1154861
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123460
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 659963
BuxWV 51
Partitur
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 trumpets, bassoon, string orchestra [wind ensembles], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 234355
Choralkantate XI
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 232442
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 742328
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 146260
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 455788
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 657340
nach alten und neuen Weisen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633726
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 670410
Oratorium in 3 Teilen für Soli, gem Chor und Band
Partitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Score
Item no.: 371508
Kantate für vier gemischte Stimmen, drei Melodieinstrumente und Basso continuo
Reihe Singt und spielt – Heft 43
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 3 melodic instruments, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 370517
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 618970
Now Arise Ye She Pherds Mild
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317553
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 311793
Sing
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 204906
Eingangschor zum Weihnachtsoratorium
Arrangiert für gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 199949
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (piano reduction)
Item no.: 218210
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 145785
Weihnachtsmotette
für Sopran, Alt, Tenor Baß, Chor, 2 Violinen, 4 Violen und Basso continuo
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 137045
aus dem Oratorio de Noel op.12
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1136529
Christmas Cantata with 14 choral songs from Latin America
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1552233
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 312588
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 311546
3-4 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857098
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804713
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125239
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760315
A Colonial Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1319769
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919163
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