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: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 1544073
from Ireland
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 754638
Spiritual (Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 753481
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1544512
from Trinidad
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728167
from Trinidad
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 728166
Gospelsong (Vertrauen und Hoffnung)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730183
Gospelsong (Passion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 730163
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 696768
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903328
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1546145
for: Narrator, male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 351312
Opera buffa in one act
Stage version 1964
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352199
Cantata No. 2
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2–3 pianos, percussion (6 parts)
Choir score
Item no.: 1660641
for Mixed Choir (SABar) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 679271
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 985666
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1343071
for mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 680996
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Piano score
Item no.: 673480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 217576
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), saxophone quartet
Choir score
Item no.: 657327
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1343129
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 920375
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 866835
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 865479
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 887614
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 768737
for: 3 soloists (SSS), mixed choir (SATB), brass winds, percussion, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 460527
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (3 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 460516
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 666042
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 772271
for: Male choir (TBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 686027
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1160921
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 778538
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 775991
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1022600
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1024126
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Score
Item no.: 886994
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 565215
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 480355
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 866461
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 858102
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1169238
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 696408
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 368701
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 655905
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands [orchestra]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 687669
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 916210
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