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.
Faber New Choral Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 376369
für Sopran oder Tenor solo, gemischten Chor, Orgel, (Bläsequartett ad lib.)
nach einer Melodie von John F. Wade, 1751
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [brass winds]
Choir score
Item no.: 380766
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769785
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 686242
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 764449
from A Christmas Story: The Musical
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 764425
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 763934
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763933
Jingle Bells by James Pierpont
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763298
Alfred Choral Design
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 763284
für 4-stimmigen gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388218
für gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 388094
A Christmas Musical Drama
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Book
Item no.: 939811
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 939996
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 928810
A Jingle Bell Spectacular!
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928282
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 911755
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934314
A Fanfare for Christmas or Easter
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933614
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928975
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 928927
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930931
Come, Behold the King
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930741
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 933135
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935901
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935841
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935617
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935535
InstruTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935513
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935475
A Christmas Mini-Musical for Unison and 2-Part Voices
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847692
A Rock 'n Roll Evening at the North Pole for Unison and 2-Part Voices
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847677
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 847296
A Christmas Mini-Musical for Unison Voices, based on a Mexican Folk Tale
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 848225
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 901182
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 901151
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 900541
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906223
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905471
A European Celebration of Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 905092
For Christmas or General Use
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909072
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908404
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907249
Based on a French Carol
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899118
Jazz
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 898920
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 891688
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944038
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 943939
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