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.
Die schönsten deutschen Kinderlieder
Kinderheft zum großen Kinderlieder-Buch
for: Voice [children's choir (one part)]; guitar [keyboard/accordion] ad lib.
Songbook
Item no.: 497153
für 5 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 361087
Requiem
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 170351
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321646
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 765990
Requiem
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 762112
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 198623
Zarzuela
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 775086
#3 from The Greatest of These Eugene Rogers Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1331013
Leichte Chorsätze für gemischte Stimmen
Chor im Anfang
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 409498
Chart Toppers Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 656462
Oper in einem Akt op. 11
for: 2 soloists (SBar), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 124401
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 339467
für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 382978
Cantata for Purification
BWV 83
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 233344
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 983399
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1202333
(Zerbrochenes Lied)
Zwölf Gedichte von David Rokeah
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 658417
Lied von der DDR-Rockband Karat aus 1978 (ebenfalls interpretiert von Peter Maffay)
arrangiert für Männerchor und Klavier
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 657905
"Oratorische Passion nach Matthäus"
Das Chorwerk
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SSATB), 2 recorders, 2 oboes, 3 violins, viola, cello, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 188988
Requiem in g-Moll
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 690923
for mixed chorus and piano (bass and drum kit ad lib) vocal score
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 498713
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), viola, cello
Score
Item no.: 1544113
Gospel
for mixed choir (SATB) and piano / organ ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [organ] ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1909
New Voices Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 687203
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742735
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 743199
4. Wales: Gwenllian
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 748785
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906761
Geistliche Musik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 906818
Johnny Come Down To Hilo
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728135
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 656634
Drei Psalmvertonungen im popmusikalisch orientierten Stil
für gemischten Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part
Item no.: 683609
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627956
from 'The Hour-Glass'
A Cycle of Songs to Poems by Ben Jonson
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1655151
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1659040
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676883
Notendownload A Cappella Gospelsong
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1642701
Nr. 1 aus: Spirit Songs. Five arrangements for choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1671405
from "My Fair Lady" for male choir and piano
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 1653665
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660797
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660770
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1583064
Nr. 4 aus: Four Songs at Year's End
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653967
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 743824
Gospelsong (Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 744580
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660826
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906770
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