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 (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 908423
Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103538
Feast of the Annunciation
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 216007
Cantata
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1017719
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 834988
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1692235
Zwölf geistliche Gesänge op. 13 Nr. 7 SWV 426
Motet on the Gospel text
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Single part 2
Item no.: 370647
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105496
Cantata for the feast of Epiphany
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 632048
Cantata for the feast of Epiphany
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233097
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679028
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1650623
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 766567
Zwölf geistliche Gesänge op. 13 Nr. 7 SWV 426
Motet on the Gospel text
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 instruments colla parte, basso continuo ad lib.
Single part 3
Item no.: 370648
Cantata for Estomihi
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 233931
Kantate zum Sonntag Estomihi
Violine 2
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233934
Das Weihnachtslied mit deutschem und englischem Text
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1014070
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1582761
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 883560
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812930
Cantata for the feast of Epiphany
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233098
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 2
Item no.: 144566
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 355082
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Songbook
Item no.: 355045
Ausgabe in D
Pauken in D/A
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672157
for: Women's choir (SA), strings, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1682015
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 824888
for: Women's choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 646841
Navidad en Latinoamérica 3
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1009397
for: Male choir, piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1078061
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085958
für gemischten Chor (SAM/SATB), Gemeinde, Streicher und Orgel
Violoncello/Kontrabass
for: Mixed choir (SATB), parish, orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685050
Hinshaw Concert
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 901724
for: Women's choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 644609
for: Choir (1 part), 2 descant recorders, piano
Single part descant recorder
Item no.: 1666777
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 294221
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 304089
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 300671
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 579725
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 145445
Kantate zum 2. Weihnachtstag
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben (revidiert 2017)
komplettes Orchestermaterial
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 679029
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 332065
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 331798
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 291099
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455798
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 562585
for: Male choir
Item no.: 562599
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 210168
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