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.
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 475463
Oper in 4 Akten und einem Prolog
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 175095
Fragments Symphoniques
Urtext der Suiten
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1690316
for: Voices
Music score
Item no.: 1668620
Eines der ergreifenden späten Kirchenwerke des gefeierten Opernkomponisten
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 238140
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 463471
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/29
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1663963
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 672018
Musiktheaterstück für Sänger, Schauspieler und Tänzer
for: Soloists, choir, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 208975
Oratorio "Christus am Ölberge"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1651946
Mass for the Immigrants
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, narrator, flexible ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1667749
Suite for Orchestra
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 816603
Praktische Stimmbildung für Jugendliche.
Starter-Set (Buch, 10 Chorpartituren und CD)
for: Youth choir, piano
Conductor's book with CD, 10 choir scores (set)
Item no.: 678422
Antwortpsalmen im Kirchenjahr für Kantoren, Gemeinde und Orgel
Paket (enthält 2 Ex. Hardcover +CD)
ersetzt Freiburger Kantorenbuch von 2006 (CV19.075/10)
for: Voice [choir], organ [piano]
2 Scores, CD
Item no.: 622885
Fantasie für Sinfonisches Blasorchester
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 489173
Liedersammlung der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland
for: Voice [choir/parish]; guitar [piano/organ/accordion] ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 682084
includes 25 choir parts
for: Mixed choir (SATB), brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 695695
Nicolai-Messe Hob. XXII:6
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1668023
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1629261
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1664754
Gesamtausgabe. Werkausgabe.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 632346
Arrangement for chamber orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1660671
Fantasia da camera in forma di spettacolo
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 775753
Concert and Contest Collection CBHA
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1655137
Arrangement for chamber orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1651614
Christmas for Band
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671241
Oper in 3 Akten (1968-1970)
Libretto: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 368964
Opéra Biblique en cinq Actes et un Prologue
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 470790
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1161030
Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671190
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592235
"Con te partiró"
Pop collection
for: Male choir (TTBB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667113
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 588676
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592833
"Resurrection"
New revised edtion based on the Critical Edition of 2010. A separate textbook with historical essays and a critical report in German and English is enclosed
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 579442
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1669153
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423886
RV 714
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 1668006
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460652
An Easter Cantata
Instrumental Score & Parts on CD-ROM
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1665481
An Opera in three Acts and a Prologue
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 749
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 365371
für gem Chor und Orchester
Partitur und Stimmen (inkl. 20 Chorpartituren)
Cine Magic
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 659696
Symphonic Mass for SATB/SATB Chorus and String Orchestra
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 612892
Orchestra Instrumental Parts
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1584636
Azione tragico-sacra
Edizione critica
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1681129
Große tragische Oper in 5 Akten WWV 49
Richard Wagner - Complete Works, Vol. 3/V
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1546020
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 1660266
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