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) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105636
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1105627
Sacred Chorus for Mixed Voices
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1105712
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 677215
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; trombone, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1105878
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; trombone, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1105876
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1105769
Weruju
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105694
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105929
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1105709
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 677214
Kanon
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105644
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1105999
Slawa Otzu i Jedinorodny
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105726
Budi imja Gospodne
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105699
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 677210
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1105638
Tirees De L'Opera Prince Igor (Nederlands)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1105634
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105993
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; trombone, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1105882
dorisch
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1105824
f-Moll
for: Children's choir (2 parts), organ
Score
Item no.: 1105795
Benedicat tibi Dominus es Sion / Ave Domine Jesu Christe
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105841
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 860257
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105897
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1105642
Wo zarstwiji Twojem
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105648
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1105626
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1106001
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105994
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1105936
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1105873
Chwalite Gospoda s nebes
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105731
Blagoslowen grjady i Widechom swet istinny
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105720
Wo zarstwiji Twojem
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105702
Alto Voice
for: Choir
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 1105857
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 677217
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 677213
Die in den Fürbitten unermüdliche Gottesgebärerin
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105676
German Magnificat
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1106004
aus: Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; trombone, strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1105879
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1105833
for: Children's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1105817
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105847
Motette aus einem Münchner Chorbuch von 1530
Edition Schultheiss
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105837
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1105646
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105657
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1105909
© 2004–2024 by Stretta Music. Order and buy sheet music online.
Your specialist for all kinds of sheet music. Online shop, sheet music, music scores and play along for download, books, music stands, music stand lights, accessories.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
Worldwide
