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.
Geistliches Konzert aus "Liebliche Krafft-Blümlein"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423603
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 217707
A dos voces iguales
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 775788
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423339
aus: Preußische Festlieder I
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSAB, ATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 194659
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 233061
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 179897
Opt. Flute and Bells
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656479
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 608961
for: Mixed choir, piano
[englisch]
Item no.: 576568
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 565982
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 565922
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930782
Weihnachtsmotette
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115690
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 258038
Adventsmotette auf Texte von J. Chr. Rube und Jesse Thoor
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 446287
for: Children's choir [women's choir]
Choir score
Item no.: 148124
für gem Chor a cappella (Klavier ad lib.)
Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano score
Item no.: 1543995
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950142
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950111
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950033
For Us This Christmas
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950285
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951410
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Complete orchestral parts
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649420
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 647360
for: Male choir
Item no.: 465146
for: Solo voice (high), mixed choir (SSATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 692237
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235985
aus: Zwei Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 310856
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 658873
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Nr. 3 aus "Fünf Weihnachtsmotetten"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 662157
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798337
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806951
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
Faksimile der autographen Partitur in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Documenta musicologica II/54 / Bärenreiter Facsimile
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 681383
40 neue Winter- und Weihnachtslieder
Partitur/Chorleiterband
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 773173
Christus ist heut' geboren
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746585
Lieder des 16. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746579
(Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744556
aus: op. 5; Text: Joh. 3,16 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744546
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1627876
Lieder des 16. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731844
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730068
Mel.: Lyon 1557; geistlich Erfurt 1563 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730057
Mel.: Köln 1623 (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730052
Text: Str. 1: trad. 15. Jahrhundert; Str. 2+3: Mrtin Luther 1524; Mel.: Ebersberg um 1480 (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730051
Text: 1540 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730035
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