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.
Choral Nr. 6 und Nr. 10 der Kantate BWV 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo; oboe ad lib.
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235526
A Moll
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1031782
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 342330
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 232591
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423172
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 341899
weitere Textquellen: "Von der Auferstehung Christi" Schade; "Ehre sei dem Vater allezeit" Erfurter Enchiridion, 1524
for: 5 voices (SSATB) [choir], orchestra
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234426
Hymnen und Choräle - Es-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 425372
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422790
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230479
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422216
aus: h-Moll-Messe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 643991
aus: Neun Advent-Motetten
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423322
für Vorbeter, Chor und Orgel
nach der Melodie von "Kol Nidre", aus "Todah W'simrah" (Berlin, 1882)
for: Soloist (high), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 687628
Acht Lieder mit Klavierbegleitung auf Texte von Hanna Helling
Kaleidoskop 64
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 766214
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1479749
for: Mixed choir; basso continuo ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 314154
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 455824
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Ensemble score
Item no.: 306987
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 489574
aus: Cantiones Sacrae
for: Mixed choir (SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 231782
"Münchner Kyrie"
1787–1791 (?)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234877
ZWV 107
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236190
ZWV 107
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236189
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 159290
aus: Responsoria in Parasceve MH 277,7 und 8
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 155386
aus: Responsoria in Parasceve MH 277,3
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 155133
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 145996
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 133000
aus: Spanisches Liederspiel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 132899
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Item no.: 347426
Nach Motiven aus „Die Moldau“ von B. Smetana
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 658547
aus: Musicalische Andachten 1653, Teil 5 Nr. 24
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 289880
Marianische Antiphon
KV 221
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1677831
Weihnachts-Motette
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 368084
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 362118
op. 59 Nr. 1
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423153
Wie glücklich, die du erwählt
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423084
op. 40 Nr. 2
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423016
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423011
aus: Romanzen und Balladen IV
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 397174
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423968
aus: Vier Chorlieder
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423814
aus: In der Natur / V prìrode
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423809
aus: Chrysostomos-Liturgie II
zu singen nach dem Glaubensbekenntnis
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 424621
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 226143
Offertorium
1734/35
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 638894
Mit Orchesterbegleitung und leicht verändert integrierte Mendelssohn diese bereits 1844 entstandene achtstimmige A-cappella-Motette in den Elias.
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 279278
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