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.
"Gestern noch"
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 244118
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; melody instrument (C) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 617571
Contemporary Sacred Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 455534
Klassik
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1100923
Harmonia-Popular Music (lichte muziek)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 924166
Harmonia-Popular Music (lichte muziek)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913940
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1550946
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811859
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 805940
from Sing Evermore!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 897956
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895879
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 895866
Konzertwerk
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 906257
Gospel und Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 837385
Show Stoppers
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 312755
Band 1
12 Spirituals für gem Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SAABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 154181
Choral Suite
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 579363
9 berühmte geistliche Arien neu arrangiert
Helbling Choral Collections
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 614061
SSA and orchestra or piano
for: Women's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 326481
The English Madrigalists 35a
for: Mixed choir (3–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771729
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582765
The English Madrigalists 6
for: Mixed choir (3–6 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771905
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SSAA), chamber orchestra [organ]
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1655475
Opera for Children in Four Acts
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 687863
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101436
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 981335
Enoch Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962203
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1343425
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343417
Pop Choral Series
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532898
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532892
Disney Choral
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532888
from Encanto
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532887
Bruckner vocal Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1093131
Pop Choral Series
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1026890
Opera in a prologue and three acts
Purcell Society Edition 3
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1056857
40 additional chorus parts for HL04490102 – Hymn to the Fallen
John Williams Sign. Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
40 choir scores
Item no.: 692888
Reproducible Pak
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 814840
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1559629
(from The Greatest Showman)
VoiceTrax CD
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 761907
(from Tarzan)
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746331
from Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 746305
from Frozen: The Broadway Musical
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 746242
(From Dear Evan Hansen)
Broadway Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745669
(From Dear Evan Hansen)
Broadway Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745667
Voices Rising
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745579
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745559
Discovery Level 1
VoiceTrax CD
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745370
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