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 (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763321
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 763309
Nigerian Christmas Carol for two-part choir and percussion ad libitum
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 679903
Nigerian Christmas Carol for three-part choir and percussion
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 679901
for three-part Choir and Piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 679771
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 849210
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908146
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 907273
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906254
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 905876
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 902650
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764443
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 764442
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764021
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 488701
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 848580
Chorleiterband mit CD
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 607799
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 566105
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 455757
20 der schönsten und beliebtesten Weihnachtslieder
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 334907
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 107213
Weihnachtsmusical
Chorpartitur und Textheft
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 475421
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Klavier
Power of Voice - Wedding Edition
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 287694
6 südamerikanische Weihnachtslieder für gemischten Chor mit Instr.-Begl. oder a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 147444
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 618654
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 371465
KV 193
Klavierauszug
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235044
Pastorale über ein Weihnachtslied des 18. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 300197
Motette für 5 gemischte Stimmen und Streicher
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 114735
Christkindlmesse
Revidierte und liturgisch ergänzte Neuausgabe von Josef Lammerz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 217559
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 242680
for: Women's choir (SA/SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 577122
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 346312
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490761
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 371891
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 892429
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471215
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893181
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 628272
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 628229
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471623
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920349
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891694
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460494
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 446865
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 148910
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