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.
2 Spruchmotetten
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115417
Epistel-Motette zum Sonntag Reminiscere
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115383
aus "Mörike-Chorliederbuch" op. 19
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115035
Bärenreiter-Chorblätter 14
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 117837
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 124371
Worte des Titels dreisprachig (lat, engl, dt), das Wort Frieden in Sanskrit und russisch und die lateinischen und indischen Notennamen
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 117610
für Bariton, vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Trompete, zwei Hörner, drei Posaunen, Klavier und Kontrabass
Text von Guillaume de Machaut
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Piano reduction
Item no.: 117419
Liturgische Gesänge 5. Einstimmiger Chor (auch im Wechsel mit Solostimmen) und Orgel (lateinisch / deutsch)
for: Choir, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 117149
Fragment eines religiösen Dramas in 3 Akten. 1. und 2. unvollständiger Akt, Schluss des Librettos. Urtext der Neuen Schubert-Ausgabe
Franz Schubert. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke II/10
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116936
5 ausgewählte Volkslieder Nr. 5
in a-Moll
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 218167
"Kerzengrad steig ich zum Himmel" aus der Operette "Der fliegende Rittmeister", mit Orchester u. Klavier
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 218014
for: Choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 217501
GeWV 44
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 137005
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 133377
"Vom Kirchturm tönt der Glockenschlag" (Bretagne)
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 205006
1. Sängerfahrt "Laue Luft kommt blau gefloss"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204974
Nr. 5 aus: Sieben Hölderlin-Chöre GeWV 40
Schott Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SSATTBBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204921
"Eg ser deg utfor gluggen" (Norwegen)
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204772
"Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt"
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 204548
3. Of Household Rule - Vom Hausregiment
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 204485
4. Hochzeitstanz "Auf zum Tanz"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204477
3. Klageliche not / 4. Du bist minGeWV 17
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203527
Herz, in deinen sonnenhellen Tagen
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203146
3. Sonntagsnachmittagskaffee
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111420
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 211597
Motette zum 14. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Nr 8 aus "Geistliche Chormusik" op. 12 (1934-1941)
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 115134
op. 53 Nr. 3
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423733
aus: Responsorien für die Karwoche
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423270
aus: Petite Messe solennelle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 236315
Opera in three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 181695
1. De circuitu aeterno (Eccl. 1, 4-9)
Schott Kammerchor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 180822
Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 230141
for: 4 soloists (SATB) [selected choir], mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 230063
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644101
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644058
aus: Deutsche Sonntägliche Evangeliensprüche
zum 6. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 643889
für gemischten Chor (SAM) und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Score
Item no.: 623117
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423072
aus: Deutsche Sonntägliche Evangeliensprüche
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422895
Bearbeitung der Ouvertüre für gemischten Chor
Bearbeitung für die Swingle Singers
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 176382
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 179335
aus der Marien-Vesper
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 179323
ein Poem für Kinderchor, Sprecher und Klavier, Text: Alfred Könner
for: Narrator, children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 472986
from The Addams Family
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814499
from Oklahoma
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814414
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806724
Discovery Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806036
Henry Leck Creating Artistry
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803405
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