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.
3. Zur Verlobung "Sie hat nichts"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742426
für 5 Stimmen (gem Chor), Streicher, Fagott und Bc, RWV.E 110
Johann Rosenmüller - Gesamtausgabe seiner Werke
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1658320
3. Pfannengericht
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 1317013
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655674
Walzer "Der letzte Sonnenschein"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 782629
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169230
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342635
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342549
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342011
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342379
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342522
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342274
for SATB, 12 voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1329369
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342660
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342485
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342795
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342405
Hierusalem Verwoest
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Choir score
Item no.: 1024328
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342649
2. Christe, du Lamm Gottes - Passionsmotette
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737972
2 Chöre nach dem Lochamer Liederbuch
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737918
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660805
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342934
Suite in three movements
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 680354
"Zum Tanz! Zum Tanz! Schon stürzt herbei der Mond"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 738890
for: Children's choir
Item no.: 1659778
7. Schweigen "Die Schöpfung aus zwei, drei Worten"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 781576
Choral Cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, violone, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1671847
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1657159
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 795966
for St Cecilia's Day 1694
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme Violoncello / Bass
Item no.: 750039
Psalm 109
für vierstimmigen Frauenchor, Streicher und Basso continuo
for: Women's choir (SSAA), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676815
Gruß seiner Treuen an Friedrich August den Geliebten bei seiner Zurückkunft aus England den 9. August 1844
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 755088
Die Kantate verbindet die beiden Texte 'Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort'
und 'Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich'
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, violone, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1660776
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341556
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 920140
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341718
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931800
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342796
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1341946
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905208
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341649
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342519
for: Male choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1342709
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342118
Ein Hoch, ein Hoch dem Torero
aus der Oper "Carmen"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532311
Volkslied aus der Schweiz
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1160953
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