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.
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125441
Zwei Lieder zur Weihnacht
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297374
A Christmas Jubilee
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 823552
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 145817
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 847743
for: Choir
Bücher-Set
Item no.: 847733
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
CD
Item no.: 846948
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 846298
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 909390
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 929961
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908410
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940920
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939609
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935108
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235845
Weihnachtskantate
for: 2 voices (SS) [female choir (SS)/mixed choir (SSB)], 2 violins, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 205490
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Part 4 in E-flat, treble clef
Item no.: 672232
for: Mixed choir (SATB); flexible ensemble ad lib.
Part 2 in B-flat (clarinet / trumpet / flugelhorn)
Item no.: 672225
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 violins, double bass ad lib.
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 673756
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308106
for: Mixed choir (4–8 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308099
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 307720
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280768
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280654
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 305385
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 392162
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 446106
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 363648
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 230043
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 684672
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 306957
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309603
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309600
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 309100
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308802
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 648815
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 647747
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 644928
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 464854
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168726
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 869101
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 878578
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 812709
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 768983
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1001816
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167686
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167785
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 895007
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