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: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756123
Bosse Hits a cappella
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 649761
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376314
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377312
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374518
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375679
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373591
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374213
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374191
Wenn ander Leut schlagen/Elslein, liebes Elselein mein/Es taget vor dem Walde/Grainer, Zanker
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726316
Melodie nach einem Tanz aus Ernst Scheeles Lautenbuch
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 726289
5 Originalarrangements für 4-5 Männerstimmen mit und ohne Klavier
for: Male choir (TTTBarB) [solo voices], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 327232
Die 50 schönsten Lieder
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 608123
für Frauenchor (Mädchenchor) und manchmal mit Klavier
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 564573
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1654605
für Solo-Bariton, gemischten Chor a cappella (SSSAATTBBBB) und Bassinstrument ad libitum
Einzelstimme Bassinstrument
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SSSAATTBBBB); bass ad lib
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 678240
Soli / Choeur / Orchestre / Orgue
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Music score
Item no.: 1136641
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375715
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1654604
No. 1 Battle Song
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747722
Choeur De Femmes Sans Accompagnement
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1136659
No. 3 Betrothal Dance
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 732707
für Solo-Bariton, gemischten Chor a cappella (SSSAATTBBBB) und Bassinstrument ad libitum
Einzelstimme Bassinstrument
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SSSAATTBBBB); bass ad lib
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 678242
für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) und Bassinstrument ad libitum
Einzelstimme Bassinstrument
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB); bass instrument ad lib
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 678243
nach dem gleichnamigen Kanon
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 759467
Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt: Großbritannien und USA
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758595
Aus England
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738241
Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt: Großbritannien und USA
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758596
Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt: Großbritannien und USA
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 739596
Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt: Großbritannien und USA
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738243
Christmas Carol: See the child that Mary bore
for: Mixed choir, piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 229416
Bosse Hits a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 665940
Aus England 15. Jh.
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758594
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722884
Aus Schottland
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746582
aus Schlesien
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725404
Aus Schlesien
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725408
(Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730048
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732562
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733558
(Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744551
Lieder des 16. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725382
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753815
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743502
nach dem lateinischen "Dies est laetita" (15. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731842
Lieder des 12. - 15. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731843
nach Ps. 96 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730064
(Auguste von und zu Egloffstein, 24. Dezember 1840)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751447