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 choir a cappella
Item no.: 283402
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 157904
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 697511
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 191911
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285572
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602594
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663169
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Score
Item no.: 445065
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 649924
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1339539
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1638941
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 631768
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; soloists, orchestra ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 244437
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 479168
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 169143
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 686244
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576551
French Sacred Music
First Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 flutes, 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423757
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 616529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch + CD
Item no.: 578332
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 633323
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 321219
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 494151
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 199968
Eine Folge volkstümlicher Weihnachtslieder
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746952
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667479
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (2–3 parts), flexible ensemble; male voice ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 409319
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 171680
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 371725
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 214874
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments [organ]
Score
Item no.: 173234
for: Choir (1 part), 2 descant recorders, piano
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 146441
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 100614
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309589
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Score
Item no.: 194445
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 456357
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 144974
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 392287
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392285
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 392153
for: Women's choir (SMezA), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 328344
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 300994
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 300992
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204815
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204793
for: Mixed choir (SAB/SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 204791
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 138599
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 795966
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