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: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231807
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965620
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1001484
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1002345
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003382
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003372
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 876824
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308738
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308734
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308733
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309718
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309545
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309507
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309385
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309168
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309164
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 628319
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 549482
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 351093
3rd Day of Christmas [St John's Day]
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 371834
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552092
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626077
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625743
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625592
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 364216
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 364215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 1189996
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 490070
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 335363
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 325975
for: Choir
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 877580
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385520
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Violin 1 solo
Item no.: 385517
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Item no.: 557613
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
10 Choir scores
Item no.: 1628876
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152245
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1152022
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1151967
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 868058
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1157323
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1160045
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823236
FUER SOLI, CHOR UND ORCHESTER, PARTITUR
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Partitur
Item no.: 644623
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1325525
Neue Weihnachtslieder Nwl 503
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 213943
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097313
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Single parts 1, 2 in B-flat (tenor saxophone/clarinet)
Item no.: 690348
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