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.
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 900894
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900807
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900800
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 900776
Based upon the traditional hymn tune Lobe den Herren
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 900573
Six A Cappella Madrigals for 3-Part Mixed Choirs
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 900548
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900243
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 900191
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 900085
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899898
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899714
with Fascinating Rhythm
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899575
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899517
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 899440
SoundTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 899309
Opt. Flute
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 899175
Neue Lieder zur Schöpfung
for: Voices [children's choir], piano
Score
Item no.: 298305
Orgelstimme s. EP 71831a
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 771877
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769337
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769255
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 769173
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 769149
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746306
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 763067
from the Musical "Grease"
SoundPax – Pop Choral Series
for: Choir, instruments
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 762813
A Choral Movement DVD
for: Choir
DVD (video)
Item no.: 762784
When He Finds Everybody Swingin'
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762724
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 745147
Play a Dance for Me
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745093
Good Day
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 744881
Folk aus den USA
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 697812
Instrumental Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 697794
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 696854
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 696715
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 696674
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764008
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763947
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763834
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763818
Alfred Broadway-Movies
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763349
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763342
Alfred Choral Design
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 763253
Operette in drei Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 197177
Renaissance Masters
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 174101
Renaissance Masters
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 174100
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 209600
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 492900
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 341215
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