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.
An Inventive Songbook or Program for Young Singers
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847782
Tragedia lirica in tre atti
Kalmus Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 816948
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946235
Alfred Today's Pop
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 847025
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 948453
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 488813
From Next to Normal
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 846932
Alfred Today's Pop
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 846929
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 848271
Holidays & Holy Days
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 894879
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946396
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946277
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946078
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 946769
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 948976
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 948905
A collection of sixteenth-century motets in two to six parts
for: Women's choir (2–6 parts); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 780725
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 944164
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 944077
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 945933
A Global Holiday Songbook featuring 15 unison songs celebrating holidays in 12 countries
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847267
Bible Stories & Songs of Praise
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 848026
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 937299
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934656
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930796
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 848486
As performed by the cast of Glee
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899208
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 944428
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845296
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946224
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1629288
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 697189
from the musical "Something Rotten!"
SoundTrax CD – Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762741
A Lyric Drama in five acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 447197
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 945224
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946734
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 947065
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 945489
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 943133
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 943129
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 942383
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 947960
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 948775
Accompaniment-Performance CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933049
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933038
Acc. CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 931887
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845076
Variations on an old slave song
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1669050
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