“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.
12 Lieder für Advent, Weihnachten und Neujahr in leichten Sätzen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 725997
for: OB (FL) HRN STR (+ CEMB)
Score
Item no.: 227935
for: 2 VL VDG (POS) BC
Score
Item no.: 132511
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Single edition
Item no.: 405671
for: Piano 4 hands
Sheet music
Item no.: 2440
A clever and unique arrangement for beginning bands
Discovery Band – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 649270
for: Voice (low), piano
Buch
Item no.: 579206
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 236803
for: Brass ensemble
Score
Item no.: 464443
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4403
Sieben neue Choralbearbeitungen für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 553194
for: Flexible ensemble (6 voices); children's choir ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2390
Solos and Band Arrangements
Correlated with the Essential Elements Band Method
for: Winds class [youth concert band]
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 371008
for: 1-2 flutes; piano ad lib.
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 601507
100 well-known Christmas Songs to Sing and Play for Piano and two Melody parts ad libitum.
A Violoncello part is enclosed.
for: Piano; 2 voices [melodic instruments in C], cello ad lib.
Score, part
Item no.: 284819
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 633653
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 672424
for: Voice; piano [guitar/keyboard] ad lib.
Songbook (melody, chords, lyrics)
Item no.: 693580
for: 2 melodic instruments (identically tuned)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 413236
for: Piano [keyboard/ guitar]
Music score
Item no.: 488496
Christmas Concerto
for: 2 violins, cello, strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 379031
for: Violin
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 609318
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1479680
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 418533
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1550921
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 280763
Advent and Christmas Cantatas
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (high), melody instrument, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444379
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 139028
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 104696
for: SSA and Organ
Buch
Item no.: 259675
for: Organ
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 335437
Biscuit cutter
Item no.: 483134
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 293940
for: 1–2 descant recorders; guitar/keyboard, voice ad lib.
Ensemble score
Item no.: 473699
op.32
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 269572
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 575662
for Brass Quintet
Musik für Blechbläser
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 246607
Klavier
für 2-x Instrumente (Sinfonieorchester)
for: Flexible ensemble (3 voices); rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, percussion) ad lib.
Additional part
Item no.: 669368
für Altsaxophon und Orgel
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
for: HOLZBLASINSTRUMENTE SAXOPHON SAXOPHON UND KLAVIER
Item no.: 273207
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 140452
for: Canto (Solisti), Coro SATB (mit Stimmteilungen), 2 Flöten, Oboe, Englischhorn, 2 Fagotte, Triangel, Klavier vierhändig
Score
Item no.: 635714
for: 2 solo voices (SS), flute, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 174227
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 499708
for: Horn (F)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1351466
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 456996
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 139191
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 104332
for: 2 recorders (SA); piano [guitar/accordion] ad lib.
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 173772