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.
für gem Chor a cappella
Partitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1610463
C instrument I and II
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1159004
rhythm parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 859862
Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1160357
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915994
Rhythm Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 858813
Herre Gud
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919873
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159669
Turtle Creek Series
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1125466
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1041126
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1040318
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 918494
3-6 Oct. w/opt. 3-5 Oct. Handchimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 919520
3-5 oct. w/opt. 3-5 oct. Handchimes & Ukulele
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856072
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039150
10 songs for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 929185
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1634411
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 826624
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122871
I pant for the music, which is divine
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1037468
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1040048
Instrument Set
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1157003
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1059365
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 916490
Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122933
Pew Edition (Red)
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 857090
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169444
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1154646
Klassik
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103996
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122204
(Ni Siku Nzuri) Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815973
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856037
You Are God, We Praise You
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1155944
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 1617062
Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899353
GIA Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152631
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342906
Violin & Cello
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918110
Two-Part Mixed
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855557
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 909046
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1037880
3 verschieden vertonte Strophen für gem. Chor a cappella
Mindestabnahme 25 Stk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 662370
Guitar
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1154677
for: Male choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1342298
GIA Ars Antiqua
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152122
Medley
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815920
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126760
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