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.
from "Saving Private Ryan"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 780625
Opéra-bouffe in three acts
L'Opéra français
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 642095
Oper in 3 Akten und einem Epilog
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1552987
Opera-ballet with one prologue and 3 acts RCT 59
Versions of 1746 and 1745
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 775164
Comédie-ballet in three acts
Jean-Philippe Rameau. Opera Omnia (OOR) IV/28
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1023598
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667983
for: Narrator, soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668025
Complete edition in 23 volumes
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666512
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668738
for: Narrator, soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668048
complete incidental music
for: Narrator, soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668036
Dramatic poem
Niels W. Gade. Works IV/6
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868694
Grand opéra in fünf Akten
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 745200
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/11
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B/C
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 685108
Urtext Stuttgart Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 779140
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 686568
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 658248
Légende dramatique in four parts
New Edition of the Complete Works (NBE) 8a+b
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, choir, children's choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 213785
mit Kritischem Bericht
Brahms Gesamtausgabe Serie V Bd. 2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1551881
Hector Berlioz. New Edition of the Complete Works (NBE) 12
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition, anthology)
Item no.: 875409
Opera in three acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1689143
Adapted for Wind Ensemble, Choir, and Smartphone App
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 690578
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1532293
signed by the composer
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 771007
Opera, full score
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1542122
Opera in three Acts
Brno Version
Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leoš Janácek A/9
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 745794
10 azioni liriche liberamente tratte dall'Orfeo del Poliziano
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 778874
Tragedia per musica in drei Akten
Wiener Fassung 1767
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Sämtliche Werke I/3a+b
2 Bände: Notenband + Kritischer Bericht
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 115360
LMA Serie VI (Geistliche Vokalwerke) Band 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1565774
complete opera
for: Soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1666541
Hector Berlioz. New Edition of the Complete Works (NBE) 22a+b
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 456537
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/17RV 517A/B/C
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe Serie
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 685173
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1023005
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1215569
Grand Opéra in five acts
Hector Berlioz. New Edition of the Complete Works (NBE) 2a-c
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116875
dramma buffo in 3 atti
Facsimile dell'autografo
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 1657550
Fred Bock Publications
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1001858
Oratorium in drei Akten
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) I/18,1+2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 882558
Meisterwerke Der Musik Im Faksimile
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
PART LN GEB / FAKSIMILE
Item no.: 133653
Wagners letzte Oper im hochwertigen Faksimile
Halbleder
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 772610
Full score + Critical commentary
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Partitur-Set Gebunden
Item no.: 1542120
Sinfonia Interna
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 839008
GGrand Opera in three acts
L'Opéra français
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 484024
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 1530211
Partitura in facsimile - Ed. P. Weiss
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 302097
for: Narrator, soloists, mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1666548
Amstel Concert Band
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011191
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