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.
from Israel
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728159
"Eg ser deg utfor gluggen" (Norwegen)
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733340
"O wunderbare Harmonie"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733372
Motette nach Psalm 90 für achtstimmigen Doppelchor
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 734149
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 796547
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209082
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 1209083
Four Bohemian folk songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1209462
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668407
"Nun steht Onkel Sam noch an der Spitze der Welt"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751788
Melodie: Augsburg 1669, 1974 / Text: Augsburg 1845, 1938 (GL 871)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741123
aus: Sacred Hymns, Anthems, and Versicles
London, 1766
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5779
Nr. 5, aus „Sechs Lieder“ op. 25
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5481
Liederkreis aus "O Mensch, gib acht"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 729135
Psalm 129,1-2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725787
nach Nicolaus Beuttner: Catholisches Gesangbuch 1602
for: Women's choir (2 voices) [male choir]
Score
Item no.: 5430
Part song
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4052
2. Trinklied "Die Gläser klingen"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 751899
Gospel
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [keyboard], guitar, bass, drums ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1325
from the opera "Der fliegende Holländer”
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 732566
Wedding Song
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742474
5. Swel man ein guot Wip hat
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751790
aus: "Erster Teil Kleiner geistlicher Concerte"
for: Women's choir (MezA) [male choir (BarB)], organ
Score
Item no.: 1947
from "Catulli Carmina"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746824
aus: Cantiones sacrae
Dillingen, 1580
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5701
op. 41, Nr. 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3433
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 741154
aus "Sechs Lieder im Freien zu singen", op. 59 (1843)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4567
Ach herzigs Herz
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751685
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 759326
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 736890
(aus Süddeutschland)
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 751901
H. 54
1670/71
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5325
Es steht ein Lind in jenem Tal / Ich fahr dahin
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733299
"Mein hochgebornes Schätzlein"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733380
5. Frühlingsreigen "Freude jubelt, Liebe waltet"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737916
aus: "Sechsstimmige Fest- und Zeit-Andachten"
Dresden, 1671
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 4731
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 738752
Verabschiedung, Begräbnis
for: Women's choir, organ
Score, 2 Single parts
Item no.: 1645358
(Schwaben)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 737942
aus "Musae sioniae", 9. Teil
für Männerchor (TTB)
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2111
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755735
No. 1 My soul doth magnify the Lord
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795534
The Four Seasons
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 782195
1. "Einst liebt' ich ein Mädchen sehr" (England) - 2. Mazurka (Polen)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751793
zur Liturgie der Begräbnisfeier / Text: Lukas 1,68-79
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725793
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747855
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4491
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