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 mixed chorus and flexible 5-part ensemble (rhythm group ad lib)
score, instrumental parts and 20 chorus scores
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 598626
for: Voice (high), mixed choir, orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 156245
Musical frei nach "Prinz und Bettelknabe" von Mark Twain
for: Soloists, children's choir (1–3 parts), narrator, instruments [orchestra]
Score
Item no.: 627238
nach der Henle-Gesamtausgabe (komplett, Urtextausgabe) (complete, Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 147641
Das große Chorbuch für Konzert, Fest, Feier und Geselligkeit. 230 Chorstücke für gemischte Stimmen SATB
Mit großem Chorleiterteil & CD-ROM (86 Audio-Impulse, 18 Videoclips
Chor im Jahr
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir book, CD-Rom
Item no.: 602772
KV 195 (186d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 430845
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 461473
(Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 294493
Reformationskantate
Urtext
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1678007
Zusammenstellung aus Sätzen Bachscher Kantaten
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 229933
(Urtext)
for: Piano, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1653616
Opera buffo in 2 Teilen und einer szenischen Ouvertüre
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 697645
Zusammenstellung aus Sätzen Bachscher Kantaten
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1660649
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 371398
Eine Geschichte mit zwei echten lebendigen Mozartkugeln, vielen Kindern und viel Musik (nicht nur für Kinder!)
(1991)
for: Soloists, children's choir (1-3 voices), 2 narrators, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 181527
Version Koch
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 561384
Reformationskantate
Urtext
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 627283
Süßmayr–Version
Stuttgarter Mozart–Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 463925
Hugo Wolf Gesamtausgabe
Chöre mit Orchesterbegleitung
for: Soloist (soprano), women's choir (SSAA) [mixed choir (SATB)], orchestra
Score
Item no.: 223589
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1106093
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 771899
revised and original versions
for: 4 soloists (ATBB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score, set of parts (strings)
Item no.: 929271
Bahamas Folksong
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1085735
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 377108
Der zufirengestellte Aeolus - Dirigierpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 421853
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579893
Opera in three acts HWV 34
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 248060
Reprint of an Italian edition published in Milan
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 212184
Reproduced from the standard Ricordi edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 184032
Messe für Kinder
for: Children's choir, piano [guitar]
Score
Item no.: 631300
Concerto a Verona
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Piano score, 10 Choir scores
Item no.: 677293
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 687846
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Partitur, Hardcover Faksimile
Item no.: 336718
Christmas Cantata with 14 choral songs from Latin America
for: Children's choir (2 voices), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 1552233
Kantate (Brieftexte europäischer Widerstandskämpfer)
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 176788
Die Hochzeit des Figaro
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392108
Oper in zwei Akten KV 527
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392112
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 484005
Der Gerechte kommt um (Coro SSATB, 2 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, Bc)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 632321
für Kinderchor, gemischten Chor und Basso continuo (Instrumente ad libitum)
Urtext
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SSSS), mixed choir (ATTB), basso continuo; mixed choir (SATB), melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 670903
Kösener Weihnachtsoratorium 2013
für Soli, vierstimmig gemischten Chor und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 660039
The English Madrigalists 33
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 119199
BuxWV Anhang 1
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1011840
20 traditionelle Advents- und Weihnachtslieder für 1- oder 2-stimmigen Kinderchor und Klavier
children's voices
for: Children's choir (1-2 voices), piano; melody instrument ad lib.
ChorSolo part(s), Piano score
Item no.: 669315
12 winterliche und weihnachtliche Chorhits für Kinderchor
children's voices - Die reihe für Kinderchor -
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 610606
Märchenspiel in 3 Bildern
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392102
Raff works vol. 15/1-4 (Urtext, first edition)
for: Mixed choir (STTB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1677742
eingerichtet von J. S. Bach
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 3 trombones, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 640924
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