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.
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 489098
Kantate BuxWV 4
Stuttgarter Buxtehude-Ausgabe
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234301
Medley - A Tribute to the Beatles
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 226264
Hal Leonard Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813322
Discovery Choral
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 690374
Mass ordinary and Latin 9th century "Veni Creator Spiritus"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [string orchestra, piano]
Organ score
Item no.: 687237
Anhang mit 224 Liedern zum Gesangbuch der evangelischen Kirche in Baden / Württemberg / Pfalz
Liederbuch im Großdruck mit Ringbindung (für die Gemeinde)
for: Voice [choir/parish]; guitar [piano/organ/accordion] ad lib.
Songbook (spiral binding)
Item no.: 682821
Choral Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 340227
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532624
(Sing!) Salsa for female chorus (SSA) and piano
Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 635063
Opera in three acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1555996
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915805
("O be joyful in the Lord")
from: The Morning and Evening Service, op. 10
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 5654
Multi-movement work
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 765820
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1545776
The Choral Works of Eugene Butler
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 636922
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 659036
333 Reading Exercises
Revised English Edition takem from 1966 Hungarian Edition
for: Voice [choir]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 475518
13 British and Irish folk songs
Helbling Choral Collections
for: Women's choir (SA/SSA) a cappella
Conductor's score, audio CD
Item no.: 614057
SATB compatible with A0288 (New Edition)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 326840
Based on a moving short story by the Sicilian novelist Giovanni Verga.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318181
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 260605
Musica Britannica 6
for: Mixed choir (SATB); lute ad lib.
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 376330
Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Aufzügen WWV 111
Leitmotivangaben von Carl Waack,
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284556
Oper in drei Akten op. 64
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198782
for Mixed Choir
Nr. 1 von Drei Motetten
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 336955
Book 3: Five Modern Pop Songs for Today's Choirs
for: Mixed choir (SAT), piano
Music score (anthology), online audio
Item no.: 622328
Complete edition in 23 volumes
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666512
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 657899
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 688668
51 secular Concert Works for all Choirs
for: Choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 691778
Symphony-Cantata
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 229353
for mixed chorus International eveningsongs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 138243
für Sopransolo, gemischten Chor und kleines Orchester (Orgel) Vokalpartitur
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [6 melodic instruments, organ]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123417
Opera in 2 Acts with a Prologue
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120601
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 624483
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678420
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 686472
Spiritual
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano [keyboard], guitar, bass, drums ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 2944
Terzett aus der Operette "The Mikado or the Town of Titipu"
for: Women's choir (SAA) [3 solo voices], piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1977
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 919977
Songbook für gemischten Chor, Solo & Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1549869
Vocal Score and Full Score
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 207093
for mixed chorus and organ ad lib.
for: 3 soloists (STBar), mixed choir (SSAATTBB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 321977
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315861
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 296294
Novello Choral Pops
SATB/Piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 635416
An unfinished Oratorio
Erde, Hölle und Himmel (MWV A 26)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318553
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