“There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.” 1 Corinthians 12:5
It’s not just birthdays we celebrate annually! Important events keep coming back year after year, in many forms, so that we can honour and appreciate them, and it is no wonder that religious festivals hold an important place in our calendars. Browse our sheet music and scores, we have music for all festive occasions, and click here to find out more about the church year.
Unlike the calendar year, the church year begins with Advent, and ends with what the Catholic Church calls Christ the King, and the Protestant Church calls Eternity Sunday, the Sunday before Advent. Religious festivals mirror nature: in the dark season of winter, Christ comes as a light into the world, in the spring, Easter celebrates the victory of life over death, and as autumn unfolds, the church commemorates transience and death.
Individual feast days, and days of remembrance are celebrated each year, including for Mary Mother of God, the Apostles, the Evangelists and the Saints, and events such as New Year and Thanksgiving, as well as the Festival of our Lord Jesus Christ. In recent years, some Sundays have been devoted to more familiar, secular topics, such as Family and World Mission. Festivals in the Reformed Churches differ slightly from those in the Catholic Church, they also assign "non-festive" Sundays, and they feature the "Wochenlied", the Main Song, or Song of the Week, which has a similar function to a traditional Anthem in other religious services.
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6500
for: Organ
Item no.: 310848
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379053
for: Trumpet (B-flat), organ [piano]
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1841
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; trumpet ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 463076
for: SOLI GCH ORG (KLAV)
Score
Item no.: 223702
Comfort and Hope in Song
36 old and new songs
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 419513
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1813
for: 2 voices (medium) [choir (2 parts)]
Score
Item no.: 1725
for: Organ; melody instrument ad lib.
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 586186
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 580377
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392020
ten-movement version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 151752
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 670697
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 247606
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 607119
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 633348
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 395390
for: 2 pianos
2 music scores
Item no.: 349929
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 558380
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 366334
for: Soprano and Strings
Set of parts
Item no.: 129267
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 494820
for: Voice [choir (one voice)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 149704
for: Piano
Item no.: 369648
for: Soprano Voice, SATBB, Piano
Score
Item no.: 173169
Arranged for organ
With hammond registration.
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 277004
for Organ
For Funerals and Services of Thankgiving
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 662982
for: GCH (1) ORG 2 TRP
Item no.: 104942
Altkirchliche Ostersequenz "Surrexit Christus hodie"
für drei Singstimmen, drei Violinen, Fagott (Violone) und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Buxtehude-Ausgaben
for: 3 voices (SABar) [mixed choir (SAM)], 3 violins, bassoon, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 684886
Psalm XXXVII: Domine, ne in furore
for: 2 voices (SS), 2 melody instruments (C), basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 156881
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 660344
for: Frauenchor und Orchester
Score
Item no.: 587178
for: Choir
Buch + CD
Item no.: 638732
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB); 6 melodic instruments (colla parte), double bass, organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231848
for: Organ
Organ score
Item no.: 380496
for: Soprane solo (2), Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöte, Blockflöten (2), Oboen (2), Fagott, Trompeten (2), Posaune, Violinen (4), Viola, Gambe, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Erzlaute, Bass-Laute, Cembalo)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584022
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 582984
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 764691
Songbook
Item no.: 246173
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 668237
for: Mixed choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198586
from 'Scenes of Childhood'
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 752831
for solo cello
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 752734
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Sopran, Alt, Streicher und Basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 759127
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494167
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 461441
for: 3 solo voices [soprano, counter tenor [alto], tenor), violin, viola, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 158462