A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music.

• Introduction


• Acknowledgments


• The Medieval Era


• 1. Gregorian chant - Salve regina


• 2. Hildegard von Bingen - O viridissima virga


• 3. Guillaume de Machaut - Messe de nostre dame (Kyrie)


• 4. Johannes Ciconia - Venecie, mundi splendor / Michael, qui Stena domus / Italie, mundicie


• 5. John Dunstable - Quam pulcra es


• The Renaissance Era


• France


• 6. Guillaume Dufay - Missa L'homme armé (Kyrie)


• 7. Josquin Desprez - Missa de beata virgine (Agnus Dei)


• 8. Clément Janequin - Au joli jeu


• 9. Claude Goudimel - Ainsi qu'on oit le cerf bruire


• 10. Claude Le Jeune - Amour cruel que pense tu


• 11. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Or sus, serviteurs du seigneur


• Italy


• 12. Philippe Verdelot - Italia mia


• 13. Jacques Arcadelt - Io dico che fra voi


• 14. Cipriano de Rore - Ancor che col partire


• 15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Tu es Petrus - Quodcumque ligaveris


• 16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Tu es Petrus (Kyrie)


• 17. Orazio Vecchi - Fa una canzona


• 18. Luca Marenzio - Leggiadre ninfe


• 19. Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi - Amor vittorioso


• 20. Giovanni Gabrieli - Hodie Christus natus est


• 21. Carlo Gesualdo - Resta di darmi noia


• Spain and the New World


• 22. Cristóbal de Morales - Magnificat primi toni (Anima mea)


• 23. Francisco Guerrero - A un niño llorando


• 24. Tomás Luis de Victoria - Vere languores nostros


• Germany and Austria


• 25. Heinrich Isaac - Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen


• 26. Orlando di Lasso - Musica Dei donum optimi


• 27. Orlando di Lasso - Tutto lo dì


• 28. Jacob Handl - Pater noster


• 29. Hans Leo Hassler - Dixit Maria


• 30. Michael Praetorius - Es ist ein Ros entsprungen


• 31. Melchior Franck - Meine Schwester, liebe Braut


• England


• 32. Thomas Tallis - If ye love me


• 33. William Byrd - Ave verum corpus


• 34. Thomas Morley - My bonny lass she smileth


• 35. John Dowland - Now, O now, I needs must part


• 36. Thomas Tomkins - O pray for the peace of Jerusalem


• 37. John Wilbye - Flora gave me fairest flowers


• 38. Thomas Weelkes - When David heard that Absalom was slain


• 39. Orlando Gibbons - Almighty and everlasting God


• The Baroque Era


• Italy


• 40. Claudio Monteverdi - Confitebor secondo


• 41. Claudio Monteverdi - Sfogava con le stelle


• 42. Giacomo Carissimi - Jonas (Peccavimus Domine)


• 43. Alessandro Scarlatti - Messa di S Cecilia (Sanctus)


• 44. Antonio Lotti - Crucifixus


• 45. Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria RV589 (Et in terra pax)


• France


• 46. Marc-Antoine Charpentier - In nativitatem Domini canticum H314


• 47. Michel-Richard de Lalande - Super flumina Babylonis


• (Hymnum cantate nobis)


• Germany


• 48. Heinrich Schütz - Musikalische Exequien


• (Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe)


• 49. Samuel Scheidt - Angelus ad pastores ait SSWV13


• 50. Dietrich Buxtehude - Das neugebor'ne Kindelein BuxWV13


• 51. Johann Ludwig Bach - Das ist meine Freude


• 52. Georg Philipp Telemann - Uns ist ein Kind geboren TVWV1:1451 (Movement 1)


• 53a. Johann Sebastian Bach - B Minor Mass (Et incarnatus est)


• 53b. Johann Sebastian Bach - B Minor Mass (Crucifixus)


• 53c. Johann Sebastian Bach - B Minor Mass (Et resurrexit)


• 54a. Johann Sebastian Bach - Passio secundum Johannen (Ruht wohl)


• 54b. Johann Sebastian Bach - Passio secundum Johannen


• (Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein)


• England


• 55. John Blow - Salvator mundi


• 56. Henry Purcell - Remember not, Lord, our offences


• 57. George Frideric Handel - Saul (How excellent thy name, O Lord)


• 58. Maurice Greene - Lord, let me know mine end


• Spain and the New World


• 59. Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla - Versa est in luctum


• 60. Ignacio Jerusalem - Responsorio sequndo de SS José


• The Classical Era


• Austria and Germany


• 61. Joseph Haydn - The Creation (Achieved is the glorious work)


• 62. Michael Haydn - Salve regina MH634


• 63. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem (Lacrimosa)


• 64. Franz Schubert - Die Nacht


• Italy


• 65. Luigi Cherubini - Requiem in C Minor (Graduale)


• 66. Gioachino Rossini - Stabat mater (Introduzione)


• The United States


• 67. William Billings - Chester


• The Romantic Era


• France


• 68. Hector Berlioz - La damnation de Faust (Apothéose de Marguerite)


• 69. Camille Saint-Saëns - Calme des nuits


• 70. Gabriel Fauré - Requiem (Agnus Dei)


• Italy


• 71. Giuseppe Verdi - Messa da Requiem (Sanctus)


• Austria and Germany


• 72. Ludwig van Beethoven - Mass in C Major op.86 (Kyrie)


• 73. Felix Mendelssohn - Elias (Siehe, der Hüter Israels)


• Elijah (He, watching over Israel)


• 74. Robert Schumann - Minnespiel op.101 (So wahr die Sonne scheinet)


• 75. Franz Liszt - Ave verum


• 76. Anton Bruckner - Os justi


• 77. Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem (Selig sind, die da Leid tragen)


• 78. Johannes Brahms - Waldesnacht, du wunderkühle


• 79. Joseph Rheinberger - Abendlied op.69 no.3


• 80. Antonín Dvo?ák -V p?írod? (Napadly písn? v duši mou)


• Russia


• 81. Anton Arensky - Otche nash


• 82. Aleksandr Grechaninov - Svete tihiy


• 83. Pavel Chesnokov - Duh tvoy blagiy


• 84. Serge Rachmaninoff - Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye (Bogoroditse devo)


• England


• 85. Hubert Parry - Songs of Farewell (My soul, there is a country)


• 86. Charles Villiers Stanford - Beati quorum via


• 87. Edward Elgar - As torrents in summer


• The United States


• 88. Lowell Mason - Nearer, my God, to thee


• 89. Edward MacDowell - The brook


• 90. Amy Beach - Three Shakespeare Choruses


• (Through the house give glimmering light)


• The Modern Era


• France and Switzerland


• 91. Claude Debussy - Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans


• (Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder)


• 92. Maurice Ravel - Trois Chansons (Nicolette)


• 93. Frank Martin - Mass (Agnus Dei)


• 94. Arthur Honegger - Le roi David (La mort de David)


• 95. Lili Boulanger - Vieille Prière bouddhique


• 96. Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël


• (Hodie Christus natus est)


• 97. Maurice Duruflé - Requiem (In paradisum)


• Austria and Germany


• 98. Arnold Schoenberg - Vier Stücke op.27 (Unentrinnbar)


• 99. Anton Webern - Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen


• 100. Paul Hindemith - Six Chansons (La biche)


• 101. Hugo Distler - Lobe den Herren op.6, I, no.2


• Italy and Spain


• 102. Pablo Casals - O vos omnes


• 103. Luigi Dallapiccola - Sei cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane


• (Il coro delle malmaritate)


• Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic


• 104. Béla Bartók - %Styri slovenské piesne (Na holi)


• 105. Zoltán Kodály - Missa brevis (Kyrie)


• 106. Krzysztof Penderecki - Passio et mors domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam (Final scene)


• Russia and Estonia


• 107. Igor Stravinsky - Mass (Gloria)


• 108. Sergey Prokofiev - Aleksandr Nevsky (Aleksandr's Entry in Pskov)


• 109. Veljo Tormis - Laulusild


• 110. Arvo Pärt - Berliner Messe (Kyrie)


• Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland


• 111. Jean Sibelius - Finlandia


• 112. Einojuhani Rautavaara - Suite de Lorca (Canción de jinete)


• 113. Per Nørgård - I hear the rain


• England


• 114. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five English Folk Songs (The dark-eyed sailor)


• 115. Gustav Holst - Lullay my liking


• 116. Herbert Howells - Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks


• 117. William Walton - Set me as a seal upon thine heart


• 118. Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time (Deep River)


• 119. Benjamin Britten - A Ceremony of Carols (Wolcum Yole)


• 120. Thea Musgrave - On the Underground Set 1 (Benediction)


• 121. John Tavener - Hymn to the Mother of God


• The United States


• 122. Charles Ives - Three Harvest Home Chorales (Harvest Home #1)


• 123. Randall Thompson - The Peaceable Kingdom


• (The paper reeds by the brooks)


• 124. Vincent Persichetti - Flower Songs (Spouting Violets)


• 125. Daniel Pinkham - Four Elegies (At the round earths imagin'd corners)


• 126. Ned Rorem - Four Madrigals (Love)


• 127. Dominick Argento - Peter Quince at the Clavier (Movement IV)


• 128. Morten Lauridsen - Madrigali (Amor, io sento l'alma)


• 129. Eric Whitacre - Water Night


• Notes and Translations


• Genres


• Sources and Permissions


• Composer Index

Dennis Shrock is Director of Choral Activities at Texas Christian University and author of Choral Repertoire (Oxford University Press) and Performance Practices in the Classical Era (GIA).