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.
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 387016
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 386281
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Choir score (for the parish)
Item no.: 155274
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 386890
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386891
Children's Choir, Clarinet, Horn & Percussion
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 1042884
aus: Volkslieder, gesammelt und für vier Männerstimmen gesetzt, Heft VIII, op. 50, Tübingen 1846
bearbeitet für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6366
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 2696
Am Neujahrstag
aus "Gemmulae Evangeliorum Musicae ...", Coburg 1623
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4130
WAB 17 (1848)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4183
Ausgabe in D
Pauken in D/A
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672157
aus: Cantionale sacrum
Gotha, 1646
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2948
Pavane
für Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2065
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202477
aus: Dodekatonon Musicum Triciniorum ..., Erfurt 1588
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6475
Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 2291
Mein eigen soll sie sein
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4883
aus: Musae sioniae, 8. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3081
aus "Musae sioniae", 6. Teil
(Neujahr)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2443
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 476529
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3337
("Der Mond ist aufgegangen")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4931
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Choir (3 voices)
Score
Item no.: 4072
nach Nicolaus Beuttner: Catholisches Gesangbuch 1602
for: Women's choir (2 voices) [male choir]
Score
Item no.: 5430
aus "Musae sioniae", 9. Teil
für Männerchor (TTB)
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2111
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4491
Ausgabe in Es
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Flute (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690451
aus "Geistliche Gesänge Augspurgischer Confession", Berlin 1641
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 3303
aus: 6 Canzoni per 4 voci alla Capella, 1808
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6710
Kanon zu drei Stimmen
for: Choir (3 voices)
Score
Item no.: 4470
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386068
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 465211
Ausgabe in Es
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690460
from: "Anthony Holborne: The Cittarn Schoole ..."
London, 1597
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4313
aus: Volkslieder, gesammelt und für vier Männerstimmen gesetzt, Heft VIII, op. 50, Tübingen 1846
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6365
Balletto a 5 voci
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2182
Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2259
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5400
op. 67, Nr. 3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4352
Volkslied für gemischten Chor (SAB)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2385
Frühlingslied, D. 243
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4869
Psalm 127
aus "Psalmen Davids, Hiebevorn in Teutzsche Reimen gebracht durch D. Cornelium Beckern ..."
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 3008
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202496
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202487
Kanon zu zwei gleichen Stimmen
aus: Compendium musicae (Augsburg 1591)
for: Women's choir (2 voices) [male choir]
Score
Item no.: 3021
Ich hatte eine Nachtigall
aus: "Am Walchensee", op. 63 (Nr. 6)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 4696
aus "Musae Sioniae" 6. Teil
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1705
aus "Concentus novi, trium vocum"
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1653
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