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), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 909427
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 908075
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 906822
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906794
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906249
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1169214
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 923674
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 587036
as recorded by both Snow Patrol and Leona Lewis
Words and Music by Gary Lightbody, Jonathan Quinn, Merk McClelland, Nathan Connolly and Iain Archer
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 459758
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 322112
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1087175
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984505
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984502
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 499108
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 906452
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Score (anthology)
Item no.: 769234
(from Les Misérables)
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 291365
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), chamber ensemble
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 769249
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 857680
Oratorio "Christus am Ölberge"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686996
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318174
for female choir and water-tuned glasses
for: Women's choir (SSSAAA), glass harmonica
Choir score
Item no.: 634637
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1010424
for Mixed Chorus ((SSAATTBB)) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 685027
from Hair
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; instruments ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1672971
Folk Mass for mixed Choir and Soloists with Piano (Guitar), Bass and Drums
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano; rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 133773
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 876887
for: Children's choir, piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 646069
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 184469
Five classic pop ballads arranged for SSA choir with piano accompaniment.
The Novello Youth Chorals
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 132419
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba; piano ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 262237
for: Solo voice (alto), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679015
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 276776
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815728
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 482735
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 417439
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 768102
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 340497
for SATB and piano or small orchestra
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 660865
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1560820
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 633560
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 490829
for: Choir
3 Choir books (Hardcover)
Item no.: 822459
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 768127
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1317980
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1317709
Oratorium für 5 Solostimmen (SSTBB), Chor und Orchester
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1681268
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103211
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