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.
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812591
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811741
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811381
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811074
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809676
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809581
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809063
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808865
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804782
Choral Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 804325
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803995
Traditional catalonian carol
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 774468
A Cappella Arrangements for Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 808213
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808040
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807321
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807168
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807119
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806898
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806817
Featuring the Carols of Alfred Burt
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805995
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804861
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804085
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801764
Concert Festival Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 660854
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812864
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810185
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809826
Disney Choral
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 806425
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 890946
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 889538
gemischter Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 679510
for SATB chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 894218
John Rutter Anniversary Edition
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 893976
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667608
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1667166
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802387
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801533
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 801284
No. 2 of Three Spirituals
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 471604
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 460502
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804507
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798337
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 577458
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 800692
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 807135
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805877
Discovery Level 1
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805876
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805775
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