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.: 688432
No. 5 Lament
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 898089
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895638
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1021652
from The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 891931
(To the stars.......)
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746389
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745233
No. 4 Arthur's final words
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 900195
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 892996
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653185
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680123
Choral Music Experience
Conductor's Choice
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 695865
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 431193
The Break Of Dawn
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964758
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1317836
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 951759
A Grand Opera in Two Acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1560737
aus "The Strathclyde Motets"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 491888
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 690920
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 278407
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 945933
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944619
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 692978
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 692977
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; trumpet, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 692939
from the Musical "The Wiz"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746255
from the musical "Something Rotten!"
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746212
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano; trumpet, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746163
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano; double bass, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745871
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745748
for: Choir (2 voices), piano [youth concert band/ youth string orchestra/ youth symphony orchestra]
Choir score
Item no.: 697430
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 696688
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 553363
Psalm 148
for Mixed Choir(SSAATB) a cappella
Contemporary Sacred Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 342229
Cantata for the first sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584021
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746390
"Choral Fantasy"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 690029
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116215
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 601371
From West Side Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1627832
African-American Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628431
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1628381
For S.A.T.B. Chorus, A Cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1626006
Choral Miscellany No. 283
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905571
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660859
(I'm Bound Away)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660818
Traditional Latin Carol, c. 12th Century
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660784
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