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.
SoundTrax CD
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762505
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 746182
Folk
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764199
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764172
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388163
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934729
A Partner Song with Away in a Manger
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933056
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 902219
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 905217
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 898905
Come to Bethlehem
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 898835
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843992
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843578
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 370202
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824915
A Celtic Christmas Celebration
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1126471
A Christmas Jubilee
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823554
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124096
Harold Flammer WorshipSongs Jr
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 826763
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1656841
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825512
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122515
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125691
Daybreak Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167829
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017383
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815616
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814982
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 813939
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812148
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810855
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805263
Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809237
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809509
Discovery Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807175
Medley
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 805361
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811001
De Haske Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804007
Die Geburt unsers Herren
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235988
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 552479
“Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit“
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 230448
Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas
E minor
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233082
Cantata for the 2nd day of Christmas
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232956
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230708
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022904
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804189
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 804421
Cantus Ecclesiae 750
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 344050
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1202416
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