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.
Prayer to (Your) Guardian Angel
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1351839
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1653188
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653299
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653185
ordinarium missae
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 1653190
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653170
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653306
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1653154
Choral Music from South Africa
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB divisi), piano, latin percussion
Score
Item no.: 1653192
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1653186
Chorbuch Schweiz
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book, CD
Item no.: 1652478
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652407
for: Women's choir (SSA), flute, harp
Score
Item no.: 1652408
(Antiphon zur Vesper am 3. Advent)
Erstausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 1652403
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652423
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652409
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi), organ
Score
Item no.: 1652413
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652422
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652231
4 Musical Gems from Salento / Grecìa Salentina
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Score, online media
Item no.: 1652260
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652249
4 Musical Gems from Salento / Grecìa Salentina
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, online media
Item no.: 1652254
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652251
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1652250
Arrangement for soli, choir (SST(A)TB) and organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SST(A)TB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1646423
WAB 44
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 violins, organ; cello, timpani ad lib.
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1646421
Ein musikalischer Adventskalender
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1646422
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1646289
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1645504
Coronation Anthem I
HWV 258
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1645479
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1645530
for: Mixed choir (SMezATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645502
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1645526
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642915
für Erzähler, Soli, gem Chor und Instrumente
Chorausgabe (Gesamtpartitur)
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1638967
Der Fisch liebt klares Wasser
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642905
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642919
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642918
Die musikalische Zukunftsgeschichte eines ungeborenen Mädchens
15 Chorstücke und 3 Sprechchöre
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir book, online audio (app)
Item no.: 1642884
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642922
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642909
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642910
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642921
for: Mixed choir (SATB divisi) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642902
— –
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642914
Ich komme schon durch manches Land
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1642912
BR-JEB F 12
F-Dur
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1641230
Urtext from the new Brahms Complete Edition
for: 4 voices (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1640687
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