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) a cappella; organ ad lib.
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Item no.: 656088
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
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Item no.: 656083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
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Item no.: 655841
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
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Item no.: 646838
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
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Item no.: 633217
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 149186
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 619114
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 clarinets (A/B-flat), strings, organ; 2 trumpets (B-flat), 2 trombones, timpani ad lib.
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Item no.: 612518
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
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Item no.: 332662
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 309678
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 897170
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 905453
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 882703
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 131742
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
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Item no.: 162382
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 893036
for: Soloist, mixed choir (SAB), organ
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Item no.: 1024564
for: Women's choir (SS) [2 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo
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Item no.: 1701194
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 2 trumpets, 2 trombones ad lib.
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Item no.: 663451
for: Mixed choir, piano
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Item no.: 663392
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 190176
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
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Item no.: 237794
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
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Item no.: 236187
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 235529
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
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Item no.: 425216
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 423791
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
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Item no.: 279185
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
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Item no.: 272529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003398
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 899972
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901165
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 904052
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 897556
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317192
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 876371
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Piano score
Item no.: 380346
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167392
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965462
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965346
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965683
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
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for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 965598
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965597
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965525
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 965495
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965482
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1167828
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1167759