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.
Harmonia-Popular Music (lichte muziek)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907561
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 898039
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 883811
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 582380
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1677227
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905329
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 904121
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 904048
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155921
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 923917
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 390154
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931816
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931805
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931455
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 931437
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931241
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931229
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930995
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 926175
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 926050
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925744
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924282
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923849
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923574
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 917193
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916426
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 915886
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915842
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915296
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915148
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 914200
Violin 2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913855
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912821
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912654
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912509
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912134
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911125
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910806
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 910063
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 909747
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909675
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909232
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 909116
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908687
Harmonia-Men's Choir
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908403
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 908209
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907953
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907891
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