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.
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 366129
Oxford Choral Classics
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 366126
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 364143
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121307
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1169024
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087198
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 801313
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965256
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100924
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 876654
für vierstimmigen Frauenchor mit Klavierbegleitung (ad libitum)
op. 44 - Partitur
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 192278
für 5-stimmigen Frauenchor und Klavier ad lib.
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 192277
Spotlight Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 167893
Kikapust Choral Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 164202
"Seht am Strauch die Knospen springen" - ("Proč bychom se netěšili")
aus: "Die verkaufte Braut"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 154695
Sing All The Best
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 224432
Walzer für gemischten Chor und Klavier
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 216785
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317500
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124152
with We Shall Overcome
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123016
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, guitar, double bass [bass guitar], percussion
Score
Item no.: 683985
from O Brother, Where Art Thou?
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1167687
from The King and I
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1106603
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315327
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 315116
The English School For 5 Voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 280001
Contemporary Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 177970
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 860778
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 859842
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 166819
Novello Barbershop
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 873639
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866023
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 864031
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 863170
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862290
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 872392
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865867
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 863775
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899924
Novello Ladies' Barbershop
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898727
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895717
Novello Choral Pops
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895288
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 903858
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 648494
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931846
Oper/Operette
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931682
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931051
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 926133
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