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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261667
Carus Choir Coach
Practice aids
Voice part basso
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
MP3 CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1689261
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695091
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 686927
4-Hand Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 930074
abridged concert version
A secular oratorio HWV 58
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766210
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 655451
Discovery Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 693487
New Zealand Folksong
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817948
Glory to thee, my God, this night
for mixed chorus und organ (strings)
score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 630072
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 805873
1963 pop hit by the Beach Boys arranged for 2 part Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 658263
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1658353
Complete Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 634604
Edition Peters Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 482962
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 689814
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA); tambourine ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1672122
No. 52 From Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862185
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1627796
Come Thou the world's Redeemer
Kantate (1. Advent)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285456
30 repräsentative Stücke aus Lateinamerika
Argentinien, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivien und Peru
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 684710
for two-part female chorus and piano
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 138277
Choral Selections for mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 138085
from Sister Act
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 150121
Fünf Standards aus Swing, Blues und Rock
für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 242449
Ricordi Vocal Score Series
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 746368
Dramatisches Oratorium in 11 Szenen
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 228901
Le Printemps
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040445
Peermusic Classical
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1671131
Version for Children's Choir
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677344
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652506
Gentry Publications
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1669786
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1666681
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654551
from "Mary Poppins Returns"
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1654773
Misa una santa Fe
Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, wind ensemble, rhythm group (piano, guitar, drums)
Audio-CD
Item no.: 1665516
for SSC and piano
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1681983
oder Ein schöner Tag ist voll Musik
für Frauenchor und Klavier
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1677020
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1651916
from 'A Bronx Tale'
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1655913
Bosse Hits a cappella (BHAC)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), violin, guitar
Score
Item no.: 1658261
"Weary with Toil I haste me to my Bed" for mixed chorus (SATB) a cappella
Choral Music South Africa
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677380
Bosse Hits a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653863
Choral Cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, violone, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1671847
für gemischten Chor (SATB/SAAB) a cappella
Pop.Voxx Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677411
Oper in drei Akten und zwölf Bildern
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1672320
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), accordion [organ]
Score
Item no.: 1667611
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 331003
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