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 (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803102
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804610
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804523
for: School class
Set of parts
Item no.: 806570
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 806133
for: School class
Score, Parts
Item no.: 806019
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 803630
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 814501
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 814400
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 813436
for: School class
Music score
Item no.: 812419
for: School class
Set of parts
Item no.: 812064
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815104
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532734
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532721
for: Mixed choir (SAM), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532687
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1532675
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532357
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532356
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1532338
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1346555
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019623
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017454
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1056873
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1702031
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746186
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 807277
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), piano
Score
Item no.: 616291
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 466543
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 485511
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 317352
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 632077
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 343580
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 334918
for: Children's choir
Teachers book, CD
Item no.: 847277
(Spy, Isuse, Spy)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 1655338
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 797788
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1566833
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 150300
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 321633
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1702398
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1702395
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 206785
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 181055
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 871807
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318122
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 145141