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: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 366089
Choralkantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 290875
from the Oratorio Messiah HWV 56
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284298
op. 49
for: Choir, orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 482922
"Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet"
Bauernkantate - Cantate burlesque
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 292352
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1086124
Shawnee Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1126015
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD-Pack
Item no.: 1125822
A Sacred Cantata based on Early American Songs
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1124275
A Winter Service of Hope and Healing
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655697
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122177
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122144
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122113
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122108
(New Edition)
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122077
Shawnee Sacred
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1122075
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 344417
for: Children's choir, band
Scores, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1664980
Geistliches Singspiel für Kinderchor, Gemeinde und Instrumente nach bekannten Volks- Kinder- und Kirchenliedern
für Kinder ab 8 Jahren, Anlass kann z.B. Erntedank oder das Thema "Schöpfung" sein
for: Children's choir, melody instrument, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 331761
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 422931
Neue geistliche Lieder
Chorheft
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 422154
Choral Repertoire from Israel
Carmina mundi 12
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 376395
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Item no.: 480202
for: Male choir
Item no.: 551059
Chamaeleon
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 151837
Weltliche Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir book
Item no.: 472191
Gesamtausgabe, Bd. 19
for: Women's choir [male choir], piano
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 426184
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 426171
Choralkantate
Den Vokalstimmen wurde ein singbarer englischer Zweittext unterlegt.
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 237842
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1560972
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1345573
for: Mixed choir, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1297776
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 265920
for: Children's choir, piano
CHORBUCH
Item no.: 609429
Folk
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982635
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) I/15
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Music score
Item no.: 658460
Getoente Texte Auf Dem Weg~Neue Kantaten Aushannover
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Item no.: 471050
Estonian Classics
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Conductor score
Item no.: 159303
nach Texten von Heiner Müller
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 366863
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
CD
Item no.: 1018177
B flat major
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1160630
Kantate für Kinder
for: Children's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 185030
Heitere Tiergeschichten zum Singen. Sie können eine Musikstunde oder Chorprobe auflockern oder im Konzert auch als Zugabeeinfach Spaß machen.
for: Children's choir (1–3 parts), piano [keyboard], rhythm group
Choir score
Item no.: 231483
Ein Singspiel über 1. Mose 3
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, keyboard
Lyric book
Item no.: 231451
Ein Singspiel nach Motiven der Noahgeschichte aus 1. Mose 6-9
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, children's choir, narrator, keyboard; melodic instruments, rhythm instruments ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 231441
Zehn Sätze für Kinderchor
for: Children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 231213
Kleine Kinderkantate von der Arche Noah
for: Children's choir, instruments
Instrumental score percussion
Item no.: 231151
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 162314