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.
Revised Order of Mass 2010
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1157683
The Souls of the Righteous
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1039343
Gezang 027
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924016
A holistic and integrative approach to group vocal development
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 951760
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342343
Musik für meditative kirchliche Feiern
for: Women's choir, organ
Score, 3 Single part
Item no.: 1642772
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908426
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918213
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121564
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924204
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1150290
For SATB unaccompanied
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 878321
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 951803
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 897613
for: Women's choir (3 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850849
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1142538
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931106
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121642
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Trombone 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1192709
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160145
The Angel Cried Aloud
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1041841
Marias Kirchgang
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038087
African American Church Music
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158399
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039997
a 'Musicalisches Stammbüchlein'-ből
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850997
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1039042
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 914312
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324403
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (1 voice), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 896616
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1111582
Volume I
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1158809
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910989
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 887096
SATB, Brass & Timpani
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 917837
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 875279
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 964386
(Sing a Song of Christmas)
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1650623
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901703
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 904565
for: Choir
Musikkasette
Item no.: 1152505
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092008
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 915327
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097223
3-4 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 857248
Kindermusical – 2 Akte – 15 Szenen
for: Voices [children's choir], instruments
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1668287
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096994
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 953236
Christmas Carol - S.A.B., With Optional Keyboard
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626093
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