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.
OOxford Choral Classics Octavos
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 891578
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115065
Verbum supernum
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1121013
für Soli oder gem Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1120982
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121029
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121064
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1120936
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117658
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115069
Heinz Tust
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115071
Das Musical übers Zähneputzen
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1120933
Madrigal auf einen Renaissancetext
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121026
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115041
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115086
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1120939
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121065
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121062
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115048
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1120932
Missa pro defunctis in memoriam Josquin Desprez
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1120976
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1120929
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1120923
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121060
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1120949
für Tenor-Solo, Frauenstimmen, Orgel und Harfe (oder Klavier)
for: Soloist (tenor), women's choir, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 1115046
nach dem Landsknechtsständchen von Orlando di Lasso
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1121033
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121066
Messe
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1121031
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1120980
aus: Auf der Wanderung
op. 160/ 4
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1115030
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115087
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1120944
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1115055
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 3 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121072
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121063
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121059
Vier böhmische Volkslieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1121030
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 1 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121070
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121069
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1120999
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1121016
Sing & Play
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115036
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1120946
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1120995
Sequenz für 8 Stimmen
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1115040
Beata Virgine
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1121035
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1115052
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1121074
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