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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.
from "Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites for Three Voices", 1608
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4301
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3166
für zwei Stimmen und Generalbass ad lib.
aus: Musae Sioniae, 9. Teil
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 solo voices]; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 2790
D. 386
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1882
(Dresden, 1577)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2070
Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2292
Hob. XXIII Anhang / Nachtrag
Psalm 31, 22-25
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2477
op. 176, Nr. 9
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1372
aus "Deutsche Volkslieder", WoO 35
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3482
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 3597
aus "Musae Sioniae", 9. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1626
Communio zum 4. Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4435
Bicinium für Sopran und Alt
aus "Musae sioniae"
for: Women's choir (SA) [2 solo voices]
Score
Item no.: 3517
aus: "Der erste Frühlingstag", op. 48 (Nr. 2)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1980
O wundersames tiefes Schweigen
aus "In Feld und Wald" op. 46 (Nr. 2)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4681
aus: Newer Deudscher Lieder mit dreyen Stimmen, welche nicht allein lieblich zu singen, sondern auf auff allerley Instrumenten zu gebrauchen.
Breslau, 1584
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5680
Zierlich ist des Vogels Tritt im Schnee
op. 59, Nr. 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4791
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 246291
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 484842
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 434039
Trinkspruch für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6011
Gospel, arranged for 2 Voices and Keyboard / Guitar
for: Mixed choir (2 voices), keyboard [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 5011
aus: Fünf Lieder für gemischten Chor, op. 55 (Nr. 3)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4311
aus: "Neue kurtzweilige Teutsche Liedlein mit dreyen stimmen nach art der Welschen Vilanellen"
Nürnberg, 1589
(transponierte Ausgabe)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6262
Gospel
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1020
aus "Hainhofers Lautenbüchern", 1603
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1152
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1160808
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6129
aus: Marienlieder für gemischten Chor
op. 22, Nr. 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3132
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1594
Ein Frühlingslied zu vier Männerstimmen ohne Begleitung
Salzburg 1796
for: Male choir (TTBB) [4 solo voices]
Score
Item no.: 3891
Geborn ist der Emanuel
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2328
Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard, guitar]; percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 5001
from "Ayres or Phantasticke Spirites for Three Voices", 1608
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4299
aus: „Wirtzgärtleins Deutsch und Lateinischer Geistlicher Lieder ...“, Augsburg, 1619
eingerichtet für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4165
Aria zum 4. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
aus "Neue geistliche auf die Sonntag durchs gantze Jahr gerichtete Andachten ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 3923
aus "50 geistliche Lieder und Psalmen" (Nürnberg, 1586)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1415
aus "The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes with Tableture for the Lute" (1597)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), lute [harpsichord]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1120
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4441
(Instrumentalstimmen auf Anfrage)
for: Children's choir, Orff instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1043711
op. 41 Nr. 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3822
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388182
aus "Le premier livre de Chansons", Antwerpen 1564
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1129
Kanon für drei Frauenstimmen
op. 113 Nr. 4
for: Women's choir (SSA) [3 solo voices] a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3589
aus: "Neue kurtzweilige Teutsche Liedlein mit dreyen stimmen nach art der Welschen Vilanellen"
Nürnberg, 1589
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6338
Hymnus in Epiphania Domini
aus: Devoti ac sacri per totum annum hymni, Konstanz 1596
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 6104
aus: "Neue kurtzweilige Teutsche Liedlein mit dreyen stimmen nach art der Welschen Vilanellen"
Nürnberg, 1589
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5643
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1661556
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