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: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766210
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 764281
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676690
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1596215
Life is happiness indeed
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198632
Vocal version
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1008623
Cantata for the Sunday of Misericordias Domini
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 233708
No. 52 From Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862185
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660824
Scottish Folk Song
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660783
Shinpei Nakayama
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660774
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660767
for: School class
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 669754
für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Streicherbegleitung ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 635872
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214531
for: Choir (2 voices); instruments ad lib.
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 347124
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 335814
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 292859
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1558772
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 931505
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 930785
for: Soloist (baritone), orchestra; women's choir (SSAA) ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 930703
for: 2 soloists (AB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Score, set of parts (strings)
Item no.: 929266
for: Voices
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 930646
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile)
Item no.: 930241
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 333550
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 169509
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1653997
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183720
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 242449
from Canada
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728133
from England
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728127
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 617025
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901003
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 893048
Cantata for 12th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684583
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 300517
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551320
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1551319
Cantata No. 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2–3 pianos, percussion (6 parts)
Choir score
Item no.: 563933
Gospelsong (Lob und Dank)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730180
Gospelsong aus Trinidad (Gottesdienst)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730169
for two Mixed Choirs (SMezATBarB/SATB) a cappella
for: 2 mixed choirs (SMATBarB/SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 676398
for: Mixed choir, harp, strings
Conductor score
Item no.: 675325
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 353639
for: Narrator, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 351248
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760255
from Ireland
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754636
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