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.
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
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753812
Melodie: Lyon 1557; geistl. Erfurt 1563; Str. 4 Lüneburg 1657 (Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730027
aus op. 5 (Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753409
aus op. 5; Mel.: Hohenfut 1410, Erfurt 1524 (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744553
(Himmelfahrt)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753387
(Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753386
Du stiegst herab vom Himmel
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746584
Frankfurt/M. 1659
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725391
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730041
(Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 736010
for: Choral
Item no.: 1372565
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375041
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374261
60 Chorsätze zum Advent für gemischten Chor (Seniorenchor SATB/SAM) (z.T. mit Klavier (Orgel)
Bosse Seniorenchor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 678961
Altes Schweizer Weihnachtslied
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725402
Text: Böhmische Brüder; Mel.: 14. Jahrhundert (Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730049
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730719
Aus Salzburg
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 751455
(Jahreswende)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753376
(Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753405
(Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753406
(Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753407
(Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753408
(Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753381
nach einer anonymen Vorlage um 1608
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 746580
(Ostern)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 753385
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753817
(Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 730055
Lieder des 16. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725383
Auf das Weihnachtsfest
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725411
Geistliche Chormusik Nr. 12
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Music score
Item no.: 739702
Aus Böhmen
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 740055
for: Choral
Item no.: 1373394
Text: Wilhelm II. von Sachsen-Weimar 1648; Mel.: Gochsheim/Redwitz 1628, Görlitz 1648 (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 744550
(Weihnachten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753375
Mel.: 17. Jahrhundert, geistl. Stralsund 1665, Halle 1741 (Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753404
O heil'ger Geist, kehr bei uns ein; Text: Laud 15. Jahrhundert; Mel.: 15. Jahrhundert; Satz: Anonymus (Pfingsten)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730053
(Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730028
Singt und klingt
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725384
Aus Rumänien
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 746581
Lieder des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 725387
Text: nach der Sequenz "Dies irae, dies illa" 12. Jahrhundert (Ende des Kirchenjahres)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753390
aus op. 5; nach Ps. 130 (Lieder nach Texten des AT (Psalmen u.a.))
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730065
Schlusschor der Kantate "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722939
Marien- und Wiegenlieder
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731849
Aus Schlesien
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 731851
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