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.
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805002
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803575
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803410
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 578131
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1018961
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807726
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806318
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 802862
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813162
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813145
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811411
Medley
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811109
Sacred Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810456
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 810345
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810266
[with The Christmas Song Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire]
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809212
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808738
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813403
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812555
from Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812314
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811935
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810486
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808946
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807855
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805654
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805351
(Medley)
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801265
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 815438
3 part any combination
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 447082
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813089
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813340
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 801461
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279270
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562962
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 618690
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 244003
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920432
Clear in the darkness a light shines in Bethlehem
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ [piano]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 470570
from "Season Songs"
Oxford Christmas Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Piano reduction
Item no.: 462409
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460510
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 446013
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 429502
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 554191
Latin
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 656537
Unison, upper, equal voices
Opt. Flute and Bells
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656472
My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 381144
für 5 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
[Klavierauszug mit CD - Gesamteinspielung Rilling] (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction, CD
Item no.: 383711
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