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: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 164120
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 164023
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 161673
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 161485
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, violone, basso continuo
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for: Mixed choir, piano
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Item no.: 463350
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 456356
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 356863
for: 3 voices [women's choir] (SMezA), piano
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Item no.: 353846
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [male choir (TTBB)], orchestra
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Item no.: 202259
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 156873
for: Male choir
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Item no.: 156473
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
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Item no.: 155358
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 179335
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Item no.: 173805
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
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Item no.: 193812
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 191794
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
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Item no.: 187651
The 14 Stations of the Cross
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 183708
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
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Item no.: 180721
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
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Item no.: 143514
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
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Item no.: 185629
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
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Item no.: 133019
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 132211
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 131352
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
Choir score
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
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Item no.: 889017
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
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for: Choir
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Item no.: 878392
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
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for: Choir
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18 New Motets for Choirs for SATB, with organ ad lib.
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 233889