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: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 242367
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816183
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815518
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 803127
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 799973
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 493019
Choral music for all occasions in the original notational image, sorted by genres and themes
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for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 664593
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 223587
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697503
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 447136
Traditional Sea Shanty for three-parte mixed chorus a cappella
Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed choir (3 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 461433
O come, O come, Emmanuel
Winthrop Rogers Church Choral Series Nr. 70
with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 301476
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 658351
for: Children's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 255900
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, the parish, wind ensemble, rhythm group (piano, guitar, drums)
Piano score
Item no.: 775029
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1149434
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 245394
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Buch
Item no.: 910594
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087126
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984519
for mixed choruses
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 564239
for: Women's choir [children's choir] a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 822460
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 661155
Cantata for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bachausgaben
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661119
Es erhub sich ein Streit
Cantata at St Michael and All Angels
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 328318
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 428480
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1628393
URTEXT Neuausgabe nach den Quellen
deutsch / englisch (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 608628
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 559598
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 744872
Chorale cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 235788
Cantata for the 13th Sunday after Trinity – Du sollt Gott, deinen Herren, lieben
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben – revised edition 2017
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233268
Cantata for the Purification of Mary or 3rd day of Easter
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), oboe, violin, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233922
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285415
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1059081
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1713664
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1702809
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1712100
for: Choir
Study book
Item no.: 692647
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 497387
Lyric Fairy Tale in Three Acts
After the historical vocal score (1905)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1331553
for mixed chorus (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1668015
Nr. 2 aus: Four Songs at Year's End
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677306
for mixed voices (SATB) and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1677850
Cantata for funeral service / Purification of Mary.
Reconstruction Klaus Hofmann
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671981
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 550827
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105378
Folk
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1330911
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