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.
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915659
Craig Hella Johnson Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 692206
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1327423
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101380
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532381
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1534246
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566837
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1093211
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982719
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103137
Weltlich
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1584422
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105460
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1558770
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 930443
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1117553
Weltlich
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1584419
The English Madrigalists 6
for: Mixed choir (3–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771905
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1582791
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533138
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556282
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1192465
Pop und Rock
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169234
Sacred Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1559414
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962099
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582747
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1004529
from Elemental
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1654319
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1533016
Judith Clurman Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SSAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1646435
PraiseSong Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169377
Words by J.M.Martin and J.Martin
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556739
Purcell Society Edition Companion Series 1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 929647
Weltlich
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1584421
Spiritual (Tod und Ewigkeit)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730198
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964767
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1093221
Weltlich
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1037211
Jazz Chorals
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 674625
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 1123883
Level D Method Book
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 1124394
Revised Order of Mass 2010
Misa una santa Fe - Choral Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, wind ensemble, rhythm group (piano, guitar, drums)
Choir score
Item no.: 775031
Jacob Narverud Signature Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654323
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101277
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964812
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105401
From "Eight Partsongs" Op. 119
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 929374
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 823305
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1584409
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