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 mixed choirs (SSAB, SATB); 3 cornetts, 5 trombones (colla parte) ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5429
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1436
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Sheet music
Item no.: 1430
known as "Messa per la notte di natale" / first edition
for: 3 soloists (TBarB), mixed choir (SATTB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765232
for: Women's choir (8 parts), organ
Score
Item no.: 693378
for: Soloist, mixed choir, orchestra
Audio-CD
Item no.: 154198
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 374683
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485930
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 899483
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 214212
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 685884
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; soloists, orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 307780
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 642625
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 425953
Kantate zum 3. Weihnachtsfesttag (Urfassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1659317
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 617247
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 278599
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Basso Continuo
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680779
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189405
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236156
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236154
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 148252
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559801
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Violine 1
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680775
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236157
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 210134
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559804
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189406
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 562022
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189404
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559805
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 370921
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 343877
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Viola
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680777
aus: 'Sechs europäische Weihnachtslieder'
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 1355927
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 633491
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236155
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 184385
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Violine 2
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 648058
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1016880
Cantata for the feast of Epiphany
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 649037
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231802
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 1014337
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 816175
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1011181
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 2
Item no.: 404748
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 289724
Cantata for the feast of Epiphany
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (TB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 233094
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