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.
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943179
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945362
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945277
Score+10 Books
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 944758
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 942308
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 942524
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 947208
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945650
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945997
Faber New Choral Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Item no.: 132360
für Soli, gem Chor und Tango-Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Piano reduction
Item no.: 633013
mit Kritischem Kommentar
for: 2 voices [women's choir](smez), piano
Score
Item no.: 192722
D. 386
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1882
Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2292
Christmas Carol
for Mixed Choir and Piano or Organ ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 2422
op. 176, Nr. 9
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1372
Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 3555
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 722381
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751463
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 747950
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1676994
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [combo]
Set of parts
Item no.: 1651749
1. Kindelein im Stall "O Jesulein, o Gottes Sohn"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740070
Zum Christfest
op. 9 Nr. 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3996
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1664172
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1670762
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 663500
"Christkindlmesse"
Stimmensatz - Klarinette und Horn
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Wind instruments)
Item no.: 775920
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1705
aus "Musae Sioniae", 9. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1626
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121286
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1659344
Hinshaw Music
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899153
aus "Musae Sioniae" (1609)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1140
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914116
(from Disneyland Theme Parks)
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1026976
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1161435
Communio zum 4. Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4435
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 1676869
Graduale für gemischten Chor, zwei Trompeten, zwei Violinen und Bc
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663615
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Ausgabe in Es und D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 668043
(Latvia)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726416
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 610333
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125181
The Little Jesus Came to Town
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1038981
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1150991
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1157497
From The Voices of Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1123680
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