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
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1317709
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1560820
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 876887
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494818
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 604318
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 417439
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 490829
Ein Chorheft für die Sekundarstufen
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 404786
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 482735
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768102
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 340497
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1643062
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1562769
a Comic Opera in Four Scenes
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1560741
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SSAATTBarB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1549253
Symphony-Cantata
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 159564
for: Mixed choir (SATB); guitar ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1715958
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1715952
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1701728
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1684659
for: 2 soloists (ABar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1611349
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 871201
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 303565
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 262387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087078
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087077
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 766117
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 886827
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 655497
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 489747
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), organ
Score
Item no.: 901266
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 891796
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 872203
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862058
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 897960
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 908904
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343430
for: Mixed choir (SATB), keyboard, bass
Score
Item no.: 634538
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 928462
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 967993
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 980985
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 866564
for: 2 voices (SS) [women's choir], piano
Score
Item no.: 321637
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 321636
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 911425
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 862781
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862765
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862266
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