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.
Sechs Sprüche op. 79/1
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043365
Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1076629
Wenn in deutschen Gauen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 647695
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912578
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 926021
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121500
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1123565
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122602
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122601
Instrumental Accompaniment Set
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 1057646
A Complete Collection of the Alfred S. Burt Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824795
Mark Foster
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825052
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part baritone horn in C (Bass Clef)
Item no.: 291215
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part alto clarinet
Item no.: 188911
aus: Geistliche Chormusik
mit singbarer englischer Übersetzung
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 231834
Adventliches Singspiel über Lukas 17,11-19
Die biblischen Singspiele von Ulrich Gohl sind ein Versuch, Kinder und Erwachsene mitgestaltend am Gottesdienst zu beteiligen.
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 345079
Magnifikat
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 230992
Eine Sammlung geistlicher und weltlicher Lieder durch das Kirchenjahr
Vol. 1 - Advent
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 562570
Böhmische Hirtenmesse
Frei gedichteter Messtext alternativ in deutscher oder tschechischer Sprache
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 237212
Böhmische Hirtenmesse
Frei gedichteter Messtext alternativ in deutscher oder tschechischer Sprache
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237204
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824873
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1121870
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 584860
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Single part Kettledrums
Item no.: 469381
für SSA und Klavier
Klavierpartitur
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1609906
trascritti e elaborati a più voci
for: Mixed choir, organ
Book
Item no.: 990305
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Male choir, piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 242755
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236109
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 552474
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 826204
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 825893
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235664
Mengenrabatte auf Anfrage
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, kettle drums, percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 672492
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 562712
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 311970
Zwei europäische Weihnachtslieder
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271976
Zwei europäische Weihnachtslieder
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271945
Zwei Lieder zur Weihnacht
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297324
for: Winds class (flexible winds ensemble); choir ad lib.
Single part Bassoon
Item no.: 291203
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 290823
Kantate zum 1. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 680146
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 562021
Magnificat
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 231040
"Cantio sacra de AnnuntIatione B. Mariae Virginis", aus "Novi atque catholici thesauri musici, liber primus", Venezia (A. Gardano)
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 310485
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116630
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843579
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 844311
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940351
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