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: Male choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 217817
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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for: Children's choir
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Item no.: 309094
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 308965
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 308707
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 308560
for: Mixed choir (SSAT) a cappella
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Item no.: 309604
for: Choir
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Item no.: 309405
for: Male choir (3 voices)
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Item no.: 309371
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
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Item no.: 248132
for: Children's choir, piano
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Item no.: 246350
for: Voice (high), mixed choir, strings, organ
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Item no.: 244704
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 1015108
for: Soloist (mezzo-soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
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Item no.: 1043507
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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Item no.: 1171373
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 555812
for: Male choir
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Item no.: 120163
for: Male choir
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Item no.: 120162
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 364834
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), piano
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Item no.: 362053
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 614950
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 428066
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 215340
for: Choir
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Item no.: 808406
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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Item no.: 808294
for: Choir
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Item no.: 807498
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
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Item no.: 802840
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
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for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
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Item no.: 1022894
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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Item no.: 1022886
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
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Item no.: 1096923
for: Choir
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Item no.: 808872
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
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for: Choir
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Item no.: 1620489
for: Women's choir a cappella
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for: Choir
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for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675552
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
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for: Choir
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Item no.: 851626
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 cornetts [oboes/ violins], basso continuo
Cello [Basso continuo] (orchestral part)
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for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, bassoon, violone (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210133
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
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Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 187751