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
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1031264
Cantata for the 3rd Sunday after Trinity/all occasions
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB) [SB/TB/SATB], mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232836
Words from Psalm 100
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 373734
Cantata for the 12th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233825
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579893
Listen! – Swahili
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 687642
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 497648
Nr. 3 My spirit sang all day
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 910550
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 680485
Richard Bjella Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532374
Choral Exploration
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 768115
Canticles and Responses
Oxford Choral Classics
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir book
Item no.: 586762
Enoch Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 962365
Opera in four acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318124
Choral - ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 444526
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 444096
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 323242
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 365856
Show Trax
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 319248
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Buch
Item no.: 557614
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Organ reduction
Item no.: 235810
from Nabucco
Oxford Choral Classics Octavos
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 342927
for: Mixed choir (3–6 parts) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 123428
Choral
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 474942
Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 611969
The New Novello Choral Edition
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 396045
for mixed chorus a cappella score
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 675854
Choirbook for Pentecost and Other Occasions
– Volume discounts available –
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 1633843
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 486801
Opera in three Acts
Brno Version
Complete Critical Edition of the Works of Leoš Janácek A/9
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 745794
Alfred Pop Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 935724
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861367
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861353
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004507
Swiss Composers Series
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1050377
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 636257
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820742
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 820639
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903612
Gentry Publications
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1585971
The Judith Herrington Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551678
(Wer Liebe sucht)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 691933
from tick, tick...Boom!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532573
from The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532566
Emily Crocker Emerging Composer Composition Competition
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532558
Discovery Level 1
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532853
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532846
Choral Mash-up from Glee
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798780
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