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
Score
Item no.: 657119
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 386079
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1161045
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280956
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 308255
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308176
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307723
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 178050
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 237599
for: 3 voices (SSB) [mixed choir], 2 violins, bassoon, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 325456
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1330664
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 866616
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628133
for: Mixed choir (3–4 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 430407
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 874911
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 891887
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167793
for: Choir
Book, CD
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for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 395438
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811763
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Choir
CD
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1021100
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 803651
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 851827
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Choir
Score
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for: Choir
Score
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for: Choir
Score
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for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 366810
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212494
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166653
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559803
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115536
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 883957
Responsoria ad Matutinum in nativitate Domini MH 639
Urtext-Ausgabe
for: Mixed choir, 2 violins, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 472591