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.
Acht Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 989246
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760306
18 Werke
for: Mixed choir (4–12 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 766592
Wiegenlied zur Weihnacht
weltliche Chormusik der Romantik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663390
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913585
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855745
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 859516
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857234
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 815979
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1077960
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1014996
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167669
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1169526
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169624
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167735
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168292
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167774
Fred Bock Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003235
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169383
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820527
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169652
14th Century Latin Hymn
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813734
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901714
Choral Medley
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798279
Weihnachtskantate
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo; solo voice (soprano) ad lib.
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 688888
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965609
SSA
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168849
from "A Ceremony of Carols" op. 28
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 688971
Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1169058
zum Neujahrstag – Fest der Beschneidung Christi
aus: Erster Theil Deutscher Sontäglicher Evangeliensprüche
Erfurt, 1612
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5846
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751478
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 857075
Pavane Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168394
Mit Klavierstimme für die Chorprobe
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649590
A Sacred Musical for Children
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1167490
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169640
Brookfield Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965411
Director Edition
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1003293
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 673294
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169524
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167606
No. 10 of Oratorio de Noel op. 12
Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 772288
Sinfonia Sacra
Music for Brass (Robert King) 602 S
King's Chapel Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass winds (10 parts) [organ]
Score
Item no.: 820293
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 896117
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 644995
Oratorium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 891856
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124160
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1076856
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