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: Trombone, Choir, electronics
Score
Item no.: 776813
Instrument Set
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156306
Opera in tre atti (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 384940
Opera Vocal Score Series
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260772
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260622
Choral Highlights from Hairspray
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802808
Drama lirico in tre atti e cinque quadri
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 389441
Dramma tragico in due parti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 389013
Melodramma in due Atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 389011
Showtrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 656428
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155830
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150892
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804400
Discovery Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811919
Klassik
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 840315
Théâtre de musique d'après Antonin Artaud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 776640
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812793
Opera Vocal Score Series (Ricordi)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 178173
Ed. Critica
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670362
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 174203
tragedia lirica in due atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260591
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 675410
Opera in three acts HWV 40
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 280143
Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte
Testo italiano - tedesco
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388488
Oratorio Per Solo, Coro E Orchestra - Partitura
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1547858
Grande madrigale concertato per soprano, tenore leggero, coro e gruppo strumentale
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 776641
Cantata Per Soli, Coro E Orchestra Su Poemetti Di Poetesse Sovietiche
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 259634
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 224163
(ShowTrax CD)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 368375
Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Aufzügen WWV 111
Leitmotivangaben von Carl Waack,
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284556
pour chœurs d'enfants à voix égales (ou soprano), récitant et solistes
Première version orchestrales
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 818728
dramma lirico in four acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260598
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154865
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 776803
String Quintet - 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Bass, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, 2 Horns in F
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1160376
Full Score, Flute, Oboe, 2 Trumpets in B-flat and C, 2 Trombones
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1154937
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 774786
Dialogo drammatico-musicale in un atto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 778594
Melodramma in one prologue and two acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 770761
Auf der Schulbank mit Friedrich Schiller.
Singspiel für 1–2stimmigen Kinder- und Jugendchor
for: Children's choir (1-2 parts), narrator, 2 violins, viola [violin], cello, flute, glockenspiel, piano
Score
Item no.: 674647
Per Coro Misto E Organo
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 258941
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805631
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 778876
Brass quartet - 2 Trumpets, 2 Trombones, 20 Handbells- Percussion
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1158896
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1156831
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 138249
Schulchorbuch für gleiche Stimmen
for: Youth choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 662351
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 815078
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