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.
Power of Voice. Hits - Standards - Evergreens
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214429
Ein Musical für Kinder
nach dem Gleichnis Jesu aus dem Lukasevangelium
für Kinderchor und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, instruments
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 616430
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 626279
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 565846
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 303595
Wo's Dörflein traut
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 273749
für Frauenchor, Streicher und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623075
für Frauenchor, Streicher und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623074
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 244843
für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477427
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 165970
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 477419
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476390
in honorem Sancti Mauritii
for: Mixed choir (SATB); brass ad lib.
Single part Trombone 1
Item no.: 341231
Ein Krippenspiel
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Single part Melody instrument (C/B-flat)
Item no.: 487683
for: Women's choir (3 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 481600
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 134239
Power of Voice. Hits - Standards - Evergreens
mit dt. und russ. Text
Power of Voice
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 555259
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 605982
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 602273
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424191
Choral
Die deutsche Fassung des Te Deums entstand als Auftragskomposition zum 1000jährigen Bestehen des Deutschen Reiches im Berliner Dom.
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 423878
Ausgabe in D
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Oboe 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672155
Version für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 622663
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano 2
Item no.: 388258
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 387903
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 387535
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 386887
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653769
Nach liturgischen Weisen von Louis Lewandowski (1821–1894)
Synagoge und Schtetl 3
for: Women's choir (SA), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 781311
für Frauenchor, Oboe, Streicher und Orgel Violine 2
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 624177
für gem Chor a cappella
aus 12 deutsche Volkslieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 613095
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 327664
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 265575
for: Mixed choir (4–6 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 474310
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477489
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477439
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476415
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 204045
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 135490
for: Male choir
[englisch]
Item no.: 468208
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 605984
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 477421
Version für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476399
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476391
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 553531
for: Women's choir (SA), strings, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 479981
for: Women's choir (SA), strings, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 479980
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