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.
SATB w/opt. Violin
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918867
Marias Kirchgang
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040611
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919216
Flute, Harp or Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1159870
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908871
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039446
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1094428
Three Festival Choruses
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1077487
GIA Evoking Sound
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1149722
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1038266
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125814
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153468
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 919515
PraiseSong Easter Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169405
Piano Accompaniment CD
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 854819
Shawnee Sacred
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125108
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 860955
S'io ti vedess' una sol
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1038447
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 918086
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 856097
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121144
3 Octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855471
No. 2. the moon is hiding in her hair
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1040173
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913258
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 858682
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1152005
2-3 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919288
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1155661
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150150
On the Bridge of Avignon
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040875
with Praise to the Lord the Almighty
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123137
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Buch
Item no.: 861024
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822587
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1151181
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 919329
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919509
Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1157955
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 930416
3-4 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855712
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151461
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1126677
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950743
Transcontinental Music Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1326373
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101028
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039074
Two-Part
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917873
Sacred Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815835
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