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 ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937604
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934017
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 933880
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935008
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 934723
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935710
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 941247
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947355
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947148
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 946102
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 946035
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 945960
Spanish Christmas Carol
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 944597
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947844
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 947526
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 940314
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939173
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939170
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 942466
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941514
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941392
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 941367
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939375
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939320
Christrosenlied
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 138721
komponiert für das Festival "Les Noelis" 2006
chormusik am koelner dom Vol. 1
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 480431
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 565919
for: Male choir, piano
Item no.: 576626
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 576585
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
[englisch]
Item no.: 576570
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 576124
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 566064
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 566063
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656475
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 764022
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763565
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 649573
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 334316
Cantata for Christmas Day
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 552478
1 Schuber mit 6 Bänden
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 671622
nach einem Marienlied aus dem 15. Jahrhundert
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1645248
D-Dur WQ 215
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1355207
Motet a 15
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae" Nr. 25
Eulenburg Octavo Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs, wind ensemble, organ
Choir score (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1355116
KV 109 (74e)
Klavierauszug
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 3 trombones ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235059
für gemischten Chor und Orgel (Klavier) ad libitum
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 381126
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 230972
16 leichte Chorsätze in Originalsprache und mit singbaren deutschen Texten für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 669536
Kantate für 4 Solisten, gemischten Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 624250
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