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 (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777487
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777473
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 777461
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 777435
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 762028
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 761960
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 761913
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 761908
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746363
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746321
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 746239
from Mary Poppins Returns
ShowTrax CD
Disney Choral
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745729
from Mary Poppins Returns
Disney Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 745710
(From Dear Evan Hansen)
ShowTrax CD
Broadway Choral
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745670
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 745554
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745352
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745345
for: Choir, piano
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 745195
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745182
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 745021
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
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Item no.: 798142
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 798070
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797698
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 797656
for: School choir
Teacher's manual, online audio
Item no.: 796614
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799608
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1633220
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566840
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
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for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813001
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813284
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813224
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814998
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814955
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 814714
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1667047
December 2018
Student 10-Pak
for: School class
10 journals
Item no.: 1655275
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654871
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1640506
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1550947
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 675270
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 803657
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