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: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 185688
Psalm 136
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 386032
16-part Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 380350
Anthem (from Sunrise Mass)
for mixed chorus (strings ad lib)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; string quartet ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 606707
Symphony of a Thousand
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124177
New Novello Choral Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 558380
Operette in einem Vorspiel und drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 266022
Der DDR-Hit aus den 70er-Jahren arrangiert für gemischten Chor (vierstimmig) und Klavier ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 674457
Sechs Jazz-Motetten
Staffelpreise auf Anfrage
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 138592
Passionsmusik in sieben Teilen
Erstdruck
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 247606
Fünf Arrangements
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 137732
dramma buffo in 3 atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 145469
für Solo, Chor (unisono) und Klavier
for: Voice [choir (one voice)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 149704
Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 366334
Reproduced from the standard Ricordi edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 184032
Reprint of the G. Ricordi, n.d. edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 183029
Comfort and Hope in Song
36 old and new songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 419513
exempla nova 052
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486058
for: Women's choir (SA) [mixed choir (SABar/SATB)], organ; parish, orchestra ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 634545
Dramma giocoso in einem Akt
Ricordi Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 455916
Opera seria in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 147419
Lieder einer Messe für Soli, Chor und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 302303
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1012114
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379053
German opera in two acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116416
ten-movement version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 151752
for: 2 voices [women's choir](smez), piano
Item no.: 137595
Misatango
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 775077
Operette in 3 Akten von Victor Léon und Leo Stein
neue überarbeitete Ausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 776102
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1215699
for: Mixed choir (SATB), rhythm section [piano]
Piano score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 8043
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 749269
Skolie, aus dem Griechischen
Hob. XXVc:3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)], piano
Score
Item no.: 3514
Lyre Series
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 638732
study score
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 774714
aus der Oper "Der Freischütz"
for: Male choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1679
Antología de temas latinos y españoles
for: Mixed choir, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 776571
aus "Romanzen und Balladen für gemischten Chor", op. 146 (Nr. 3)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4596
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 776232
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 907642
Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1162616
With drooping wings, ye Cupids come
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906668
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 909830
Nr. 2 aus: Weltliche a-cappella-Chöre von 1846
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546516
MH 213/1, für Chor und Basso continuo
aus: Responsoria ad quatuor Evangelia in Solemnitate Sanctissimi Corporis Christi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 2877
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1148287
SATB choir parts (25 pieces)
Filmmusic
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 656452
Organum Reihe 1
Geistliche Gesangsmusik, Nr. 17
for: Soloists (ATB), mixed choir (ATB), string orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 655314
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