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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1117533
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101240
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918656
for: Mixed choir (SATB), timpani, organ; brass quintet ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 929093
Glory Sound Celebration
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122209
Sign Us with Ashes, Gather Your People, Feed Us and Guide Us
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152825
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038473
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124928
Three Festival Choruses
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1077644
Pour 3 Voix De Femmes Avec Accompagnement De Piano
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 888875
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 646433
für gem Chor (SAM) und E-Piano (Band) Klavier-Partitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Item no.: 664315
2 Trumpets in Bb
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159455
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 859337
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982914
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1041683
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124203
Hinshaw Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1058811
Orchestration
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 919051
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 918684
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149497
for: Mixed choir (SAM); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 1596221
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 854992
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931957
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982631
Clarinet in Bb or C Instrument
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158540
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122764
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1159429
O wundersames tiefes Schweigen
aus "In Feld und Wald" op. 46 (Nr. 2)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4681
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856032
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857017
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 869676
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 860519
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123035
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 987642
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123318
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 920221
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918423
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855811
SATB
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918626
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1093453
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 914354
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1593466
Full Score
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 909896
Hinshaw Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898785
Remembering Alexander Peloquin
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1154193
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1151667
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 855286
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