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.
SSAATB & Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 855678
Glory Sound Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124035
Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964710
Introit Hymn for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155058
A Christmas Musical for Key Stages 1-2
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 832037
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125923
Weihnachtskantate
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1632577
Words by Carole Bayer Sager
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 366251
für gemischten Chor, Flöte, Klarinette, Horn und Orgel
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 377533
The Ultimate Gospel Choir Book
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 455618
Ausgabe Butz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 428866
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 493052
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 298436
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058714
bearbeitet von Johann Sebastian Bach
BWV Anh. 30
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 621645
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 672331
für Kantor, Gemeinde, vierstimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel, kleines Orchester (Flöte, Oboe, 2 Violinen, Violoncello/Kontrabass) ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ; instruments ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 679248
für Kantor, Gemeinde, vierstimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel, kleines Orchester (Flöte, Oboe, 2 Violinen, Violoncello/Kontrabass) ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ; instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 677663
Die Geburt unsers Herren und Heilands Jesu Christi
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 607411
for: Mixed choir, piano
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 615811
Weihnachtskantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 619632
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 228902
Entstehungszeit evtl. um 1610
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 232070
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
mit singbarer englischer Übersetzung
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 231831
Magnifikat
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 136354
Zehn Sätze für Kinderchor
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 231212
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1337091
for: Choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1337999
für Sopran, gemischten Chor und Band
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 683186
– Graduated price on demand –
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1661614
German Magnificat
Frühfassung
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1658564
BuxWV Anhang 1
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 234331
für vier Solostimmen (SATB), gemischten Chor (SATB), Orchester und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 238021
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 199963
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 363843
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 145693
PraiseSong Christmas Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169388
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1159214
Popular Christmas Classics and Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169394
Eine Weihnachtskantate zum Singen und Tanzen für 1- bis 2-stimmigen Kinderchor, Querflöte, Violine (Klarinette), Tasteninstrument, Gitarre ad lib., Bassinstrument
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 649549
15 Advents– und Weihnachtslieder aus 10 Jahrhunderten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 633366
zu bekannten Kirchenliedern, für SAB, Orgel oder 3 Melodieinstr.
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Ensemble score
Item no.: 307531
à 7 overo 15
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 480296
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
[englisch, deutsch]
Item no.: 551181
Ein Hirtenspiel
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 472955
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125698
A Christmas Calypso
for: Youth concert band; choir ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671666
Tohter Zion / Kommet, ihr Hirten / Still still, still
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Partitur
Item no.: 663620
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