“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: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 638054
for: Keyboards and C instruments
Buch + CD
Item no.: 338986
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 120898
for: 4 saxophones (AATBar)
Score
Item no.: 692779
Volume 3: Cantatas, Masses, Christmas Oratorio, Works for Orchestra
Musica Rara
for: Horn
Music score
Item no.: 193984
Favoritchor/Orgel(Bc) (Favoritchor)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 628926
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 430839
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 656501
for: 2 accordions (duet)
Item no.: 135576
for: 1–2 descant recorders
Ensemble score, online playback
Item no.: 1020349
16 Most Popular Christmas Songs
Schott Saxophone Lounge
for: Tenor saxophone; piano ad lib.
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback) (anthology)
Item no.: 772136
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285536
Student Choice Series – Level 2
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 680040
for: 1–3 horns
Ensemble score (anthology), Playback-CD
Item no.: 176879
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 560486
for: 5 recorders (SAATB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 672387
for: 3 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 419343
for: 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 147571
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1020775
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 647771
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 672198
for: Voice(s), organ [piano]; guitar ad lib.
Songbook
Item no.: 353135
for: 2-3 Blockflöten (SA/T); Klavier ad libitum
Ensemble score
Item no.: 343291
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116738
Marian antiphone
Contemporary Choral Series
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697066
for: 1–2 violins
Performance scores
Item no.: 148036
for: Guitar
Item no.: 113384
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Music score (anthology), 2 CDs
Item no.: 456831
Best-loved Christmas music for solo piano
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 681142
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 422849
Spiral bound
for: Voice
Lyric book
Item no.: 647544
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 134116
Geistliche Musik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1091684
Les anges dans nos campagnes
Collection Maurice Andre
for: Trumpet, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198939
for: Trumpet, organ
Book
Item no.: 326814
editionchor
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 607833
36 leichte Advents- und Weihnachtsduette (mit Texten)
for: 2 violins
Ensemble score
Item no.: 663057
for: 4 pianos
Item no.: 229212
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 601338
for: Organ
Item no.: 145272
for: Strings, harpsichord
Score
Item no.: 125279
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 673457
for: 2 voices (SS), string orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 237302
for: Flute, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 633398
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 874583
Choir score
Item no.: 171659
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 234571
for: Winds class
Score, online audio
Item no.: 1351458