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.
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1092228
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959982
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959967
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 960475
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 964551
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111078
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 952908
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097280
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110842
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1116000
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101135
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931259
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1109885
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 916191
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1111649
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1110937
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 925728
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 915834
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101410
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 938118
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 469880
for: Mixed choir, percussion
Item no.: 164880
Ninive 100
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 162603
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 486328
Early Music Library 226
for: Choir (8 voices); 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Item no.: 482597
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 583590
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 583304
Cantata for Ascension
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424399
über Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 424119
Jubilate
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 423941
Jubilate
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 423940
Kantate zum Sonntag Quasimodogeniti
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233126
Violin Solo and Violin 1
BWV 66
Cantata for the Second Easter Day
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 oboes, bassoon, violin solo, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233111
Cantata for the 21st Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232940
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 387802
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387359
for: Male choir
Item no.: 387064
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388170
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388103
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 386655
für Oberstimme (Solostimme oder mehrere Stimmen) und Chor
auf Texte von F.J. Stritt
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 746209
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 386571
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931321
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 477457
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 457018
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1654284
Kleine Credomesse
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1676904
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