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.
Brass Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 856026
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 856929
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124465
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1149875
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040774
3-5 oct. w/opt. 3-4 oct. Handchimes
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855608
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124784
Gospel Acclamation
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 1150820
with The Snow Lay on the Ground, Sussex Carol, Good Christians All Rejoice
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126786
Two-Four-Part
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 856934
Barbershop Harmony Society
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1354154
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122870
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 664836
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 663000
Ein Stück mit Musik, Pantomime und Akrobatik (Schulmusical)
for: Children's choir, instruments
Songbook, CD
Item no.: 377032
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 375215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 375212
Me compare Giacometo
Venezianisches Volkslied
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 378291
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 377709
for: Male choir
Item no.: 339663
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 455855
Mapa Mundi
Italian Church Music 8
for: Mixed choir (40 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 442856
Cantate Domino
Kirchenmusik aus alter und neuer Zeit
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 342364
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 565967
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 374056
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 313496
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 310780
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 276543
for: Mixed choir (SATB); instruments ad lib.
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 273574
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 478843
for: Children's choir
Chorheft
Item no.: 487567
Der Welterfolg vom Hazy-Osterwald-Sextett
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 488080
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 443156
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Item no.: 342468
für gem Chor (STB) und Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 553217
Motette 4
for: Mixed choir (SMezATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560472
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 561759
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560727
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 560569
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 555989
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 557598
Es war ein Tierlein
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271997
Plattdeutsche Choralmotette
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271943
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 555803
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 106946
Ein unterhaltsames Herbstmusical für 7- bis 11-Jährige
Heft und AudioCD
Helbling Mini-Musicals (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Score, CD
Item no.: 583479
Sing & Play
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 280256
Chorpartitur
Sing & Play
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 204993
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