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.
No. 4 Love Song
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 330478
Traditional Trinidad Carol
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 889530
from Cantata 147
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660825
Traditional Shaker Hymn
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1660819
from Evensong
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660789
Traditional Carol
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660785
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660780
Traditional
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1660778
5th movement: Es sungen drei Engel einen süßen Gesang
for: Soloist (alto), women's choir, boys' choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746268
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 946763
Amerikanischer Folk-Song aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
Bosse Hits a cappella (BHAC)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1585721
A Grand Opera in Two Acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1560764
(In The Bleak Midwinter)
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 635663
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 560263
Traditional Folk Song
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902948
Seven Bagatelles for Unaccompanied SATB Chorus
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 645793
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678457
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678447
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678440
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678412
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678411
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 678342
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 678330
from "The Wizard of Oz"
Alfred Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano; violin ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 746346
from the Musical "Grease"
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746332
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts, CD
Item no.: 846711
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746262
from the Musical "The Wiz"
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746253
from the musical "Something Rotten!"
Pop Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 746214
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746096
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745869
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745851
with piano accompaniment for rehearsal
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745732
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745702
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745699
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 745679
Opera in 3 acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 177022
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 211832
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; trumpet, snare drum ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 692938
Hymne für Sopran, Chor (SATB) und Orchester MWV B 49
in zwei Fassungen
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 147203
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701344
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556281
for: Narrator, 4 soloists (BBBB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1105778
16th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232791
für gem Chor a cappella Partitur (dt/en)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 550815
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 487589
Kantate zur Trauung
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 661349
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 302398