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.
Weihnachtskantate
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1632578
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096709
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 607232
Ein Musical zur Weihnachtszeit nach einer Geschichte von Peter Schindler
für Soli, Kinderchor, und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445257
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424317
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423517
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 387944
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 386090
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 386087
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386068
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 909590
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 1167589
Music First Express
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 812894
KV 195 (186d)
Chorpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 235091
Adventliches Singspiel über Lukas 17,11-19
Die biblischen Singspiele von Ulrich Gohl sind ein Versuch, Kinder und Erwachsene mitgestaltend am Gottesdienst zu beteiligen.
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 231407
for: Male choir
Item no.: 242639
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 422873
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 466282
Adventliches Singspiel über Lukas 17,11-19
Die biblischen Singspiele von Ulrich Gohl sind ein Versuch, Kinder und Erwachsene mitgestaltend am Gottesdienst zu beteiligen.
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Set of parts
Item no.: 345080
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 125534
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825511
Kantate
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 171919
Four Carols for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1151995
Heft 5 aus «Musik aus der Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn»
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 687317
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097428
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 603279
Praetorius: Vom Himmel hoch - Bach: Lobt Gott, ihr Christen - Praetorius: Wie schön leucht' uns der Morgenstern - Vulpius: Aus Saba kamen Kön'ge dar
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 365130
für Sopran, Chor, 2 Trompeten, 2 Violinen, Baß und Pauken
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 334464
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 633051
für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester (Orgel)
Einzeln nur mit Anti-Kopier-Stempel lieferbar!
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 654868
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560701
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116031
Strubes Chorblaetter 12
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 425454
aus: Zwölf deutsche geistliche Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1109062
A Christmas Jubilee
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 824221
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341539
für Frauenchor und Klavier Chorpartitur
Weihnachtskantate
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 662488
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1654252
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Oboe d'amore (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1666841
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 168145
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 363274
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343027
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1023350
I Will Lead You Home
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804245
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804814
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1021455
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814297
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811229
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