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.
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753395
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737817
Gekürzte Fassung
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722940
Text: Psalm 24, 7-10
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 722942
(Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730075
(Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730076
(Weihnachten
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730077
Aus Tirol
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732447
Nr. 4 der fälschlich J. S. Bach zugeschriebenen Kantate: "Uns ist ein Kind geboren"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722946
op. 22/1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733559
Gesangbuch Joseph Klug 1543/nach dem lat. " puer natus in Bethlehem"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758590
Gesangbuch Joseph Klug 1535
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758591
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753402
Breslau 1555 (15. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725379
Frankfurt 1659
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758592
Krippenlied aus dem Aargau/Schweiz
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 758593
Text nach dem lat. "In dulci jubilo" (14. Jh.)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746578
Text: Str. 1 u. 4 nach Ambrosius Lobwasser 1573; Str. 3 Fritz Enderlin 1952 nach Ps. 118 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744554
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730032
Mel: 15. Jahrhundert; Text: Str. 1-2 vorreformat., Str. 3: Berlin 1853 (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 730036
Melodie aus dem 11. Jahrhundert
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 751448
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 744752
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744751
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375040
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373395
Text und Mel.: Leipziger Handschrift 15. Jahrhundert (Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730042
Aus Ostpreußen
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725403
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730044
(Original 1 Ganzton höher) (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737824
Mel.: 15. Jahrhundert; geistlich Erfurt 1524 (Epiphanias)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753378
Str. 5: Köln 1574; Mel.: Frankfurt/Main 1569 (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744555
Lieder des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725390
Mel.: Böhmische Brüder 1661 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730062
nach einem flämischen Lied aus dem 17. Jh.
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725392
trad. seit 1850
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731847
Aus BWV 248 Nr. 42: Choral "Jesus richte mein Beginnen"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 759466
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730714
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [4 voices (SATB)]
Music score
Item no.: 731578
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753396
aus op. 5; Mel.: Frankfurt/Main 1557 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753398
Mel.: bei Bartholomäus Gesius 1601
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 737818
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374262
nach dem Kanon "Ave Maria"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 722947
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 733557
Einsiedeln 12. Jh., Martin Luther 1524
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725378
15. Jh., nach "Quem pastores laudavere" bzw. "nunc angelorum gloria"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725380
Weihnachtslieder des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725401
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730078
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