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.
Shawnee Press
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121325
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121298
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 823217
Glory Sound Celebration
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126778
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 983190
G-Dur
Musica Sacra 11
for: Mixed choir (SATB), wind ensemble, timpani
Piano reduction
Item no.: 261472
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 496736
Psalm 112
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1021044
Eine Oper für junge Leute
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Piano reduction
Item no.: 357063
for: 4 soloists [mixed choir] (SSAB), 2 violins, cello/double bass, 2 trumpets, timpani, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 635191
Kleine Orgelsolomesse in B
Hob. XXII:7
Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 632095
Chorale cantata
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; organ ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 770552
Offertorium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 764586
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951379
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950234
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950187
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950178
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950164
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950161
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950155
Epiphany
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950152
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950074
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950042
4. Eli, Eli
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950026
5. Pater Meus
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950025
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950015
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950002
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950643
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950642
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950630
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950620
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950616
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950595
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950495
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950464
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950453
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950451
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950423
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950389
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950377
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950353
Any Voices
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950347
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950271
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950270
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950260
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950256
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 950251
Solfa Edition
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 951040
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