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.
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 928446
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 908255
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906728
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906293
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906234
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 847588
for: Choir
Book, CD
Item no.: 847602
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843991
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 844897
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 904111
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746087
A South African Christmas Anthem for S.S.A. Chorus and Piano
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1619006
Christmas Anthem
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627475
for: Mixed choir, organ
Book
Item no.: 989351
SAB und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 863373
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 865829
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, bassoon, violone (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210133
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823378
for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 354651
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280770
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Part 1 in C (melody)
Item no.: 672222
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 308276
A Christmas Story
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir part
Item no.: 724284
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
CD
Item no.: 1124806
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 283391
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 181637
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183718
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 920501
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747083
"Das Volk, das im Finstern wandelt" (Jesaja 9)
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Partitur = Orgelstimme
Item no.: 746947
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 729966
"Dort hoch auf dem Berge, da wehet der Wind"
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSAA)
Choir score
Item no.: 742375
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 309585
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022894
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1022886
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813787
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 614950
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1023365
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 802840
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808406
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808294
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1167349
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965633
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167588
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1167486
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 808872
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019874
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