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.
ShowTrax CD
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir; piano ad lib.
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745175
ShowTrax CD
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745110
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815344
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811857
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809455
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805885
PraiseSong Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169604
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169559
(ShowTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1534529
Broadway Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814392
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811690
Disney Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806264
Jazz Chorals
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805161
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812920
from Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806578
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802706
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167575
Daybreak Choral Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167428
with O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167400
UMPC Critical Editions – Practical Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 667336
"Christkindlmesse"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 775032
Kreative Wege zum mehrstimmigen Gemeindegesang
Kanons – Klangbausteine – Circlesongs
for: The parish, keyboard instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1684791
"Gott! Auf Dein Wort erscheinen wir"
Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg 1
for: Mixed choir (SAB), 2 horns, organ
Score, CD
Item no.: 291882
MH 826
Stimmensatz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 237757
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 643859
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1692148
208 funktionale Übungen für gemischten Chor in 3 Bänden
for: Mixed choir a cappella
3 music scores
Item no.: 658669
Märchenoper in drei Bildern – Neuausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 353999
Heft 5 aus «Musik aus der Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn»
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 687317
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 236581
"Sieh Gott! vom Himmel nieder"
Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg Einzelausgabe 3
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 horns (E-flat), organ, double bass
Score, CD (with parts to print yourself)
Item no.: 607325
Lieder einer Messe
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 586600
Kreative Wege zum mehrstimmigen Gemeindegesang
Kanons – Klangbausteine – Circlesongs
for: The parish, keyboard instrument
Music lesson book
Item no.: 694164
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
10 Choir scores
Item no.: 770658
Paket: Partitur + CD-Rom mit Orchesterstimmen zum Ausdrucken
Musik aus Klöstern, Kirchen und Fürstenhöfen Band 6
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score, CD-ROM
Item no.: 629915
Waisenhausmesse
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 236665
Bouffonerie in einem Akt
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 744882
The Monuments of Russian Sacred Music Serie IX, Vol. 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297337
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 479493
Musik aus Klöstern, Kirchen und Fürstenhöfen - Band 1
Partitur und Daten-CD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score, CD-ROM
Item no.: 471372
Chorale cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; organ ad lib.
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235791
based on "The Creation" by Joseph Haydn
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 691969
Coronation Mass
Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 226132
Songs from Mama Africa
Amstel Concert Band
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208732
Songs from the Codex Buranus
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1681519
for: 4 soloists [mixed choir] (SSAB), 2 violins, cello/double bass, 2 trumpets, timpani, basso continuo
Set of parts (Orchestra)
Item no.: 635198
Rarita Musicali
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 169805
(Facsimile)
for: Choir
Item no.: 478886
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