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.
Passionsmusik nach Worten der heiligen Schrift, op. 45
for: 4 soloists (TTBarB/ATTB), mixed choir (SATB), organ, cello, double bass; strings ad lib.
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6394
Balletto a 5 voci
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2182
Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2259
aus: Zwölf deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 35
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2669
aus: Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta, 1723
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; 3 trombones, strings ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2882
Hob. XXVc:2
für Chor und Pianoforte
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 2993
from Mexico
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728162
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 729239
Benedicamus und apostolischer Segen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 729454
aus dem Toskanischen
for: 4 voices (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 729593
3. Ein Jäger längs dem Weiher ging (Rheinland)
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB)
Score
Item no.: 738987
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 740874
Psalm 46,6
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741117
Drei alte Volkslieder
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751679
3. Sag mir, Gott · Daj mi Bože
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751698
"Wir lieben sehr im Herzen", Madrigal
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733365
(Coburg 1621)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733368
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 725105
Nr. 1 aus "Aus dem Sängerleben". Sieben Lieder und Gesänge, op. 85
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725753
GL 357 (ö)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725754
for mixed choir (SATB)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 750326
1. Liebe, dir ergeb' ich mich!
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 749919
in Domenica Tertia in Quadragesima
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742391
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732289
2. Nicht doch
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 732798
Nr. 3 Rechenstunde
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746949
Opera in tre atti
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Textbuch/Libretto Kritische Ausgabe
Item no.: 758503
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 758508
Text: Liturgie
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756483
from Am Anfang war das Wort
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 757376
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 761232
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760232
for: Women's choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760853
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793933
Cheerful ballad on the German song "Ein Mann, der sich Kolumbus nannt"
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795682
At that time
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795683
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209084
Amusing choral setting
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1209464
Walzer "Wiener Wald! Wie es schallt"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 793900
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5400
aus: Herrn Pfarrers Joh. Samuel Kriegsmanns Evangelisches Hosianna
Frankfurt, 1622
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3564
aus: Herrn Pfarrers Joh. Samuel Kriegsmanns Evangelisches Hosianna
Frankfurt, 1622
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins [recorders (AT)], basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3348
Duett Giulietta/Nicklausse aus der Oper "Hoffmanns Erzählungen"
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (STB), orchestra
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1890
1. Bei den Wirags brennt das Feuer
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742446
"Allor, che l'alma afflitta" - "Alsdann, trauernde Seele"
for: Women's choir (SMezA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 782677
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732294
(„Ethica“)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 795583
aus: "Der erste Frühlingstag", op. 48 (Nr. 1)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1972
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