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.
La Rousee Du Mois De Mai
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 992673
En Revenant Du Bois
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 992671
Je Ne Me Confesserai Point
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 992649
Quand Je Bois Du Vin
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 992638
Je L'aime Bien
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 992629
Deduc Me Domine
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Book
Item no.: 992606
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [youth concert band/ youth string orchestra/ youth symphony orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 697428
A School-Time, Yule-Time Journey
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 847627
A Seasonal Celebration for Unison and 2-Part Voices
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847911
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847565
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 745791
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1565744
Volume 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565738
S.S.A.A., A Cappella
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1618612
for: Choir, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 1592183
Anthology of Choral Music in the Renaissance
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1586266
Kiel Shomrenu - S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626261
For Mixed Chorus (S.A.T.B.), Piano Or Organ
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626237
S.A.T.B., With Organ
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626236
I. Spring (Thomas Nash)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626229
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626193
Klassik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626144
S.A.T.B., With Piano
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626137
S.A.T.B., A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626116
Nos. 24 and 25 From "Cantiones Sacrae" - for S.A.T.B. and Keyboard (Latin and English Text)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626097
S.A.T.B., With Optional Keyboard (for Good Friday Or Lent)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626087
S.A.T.B. Chorus, A Cappella
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626035
Never Forget the Day and You
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1586137
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1586109
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1539526
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1345478
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1340604
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1328579
für Chor und Orchester
Bass
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part bass
Item no.: 1634115
Songs of the Islands
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 1356577
In High Voice
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212386
Nr. 1 Nootka paddle song
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211974
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1211944
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1211685
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211519
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1211497
Schwer war König Davids Herz
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1349776
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1346006
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1345964
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1345934
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