“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: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 120515
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 230732
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 473209
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 896248
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 875494
for: Flexible wind band
Score
Item no.: 863681
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 869168
for: Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 975703
for: Brass band
Score
Item no.: 877599
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1014566
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965530
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1167590
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1169036
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 932514
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 633671
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1169619
for: Flute
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 649612
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 681544
for: Horn
Buch + CD
Item no.: 576898
for: 2 voices, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 474937
Fifteen great Christmas songs specially arranged for Violin with play-along accompaniments on CD!
for: Violin
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 474532
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 458445
for: Voice, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1642970
for: Recorder
Instrument & lesson book
Item no.: 680037
from Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 744865
for: Electric guitar
Music score (with tabs), online playback
Item no.: 692075
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 813100
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746364
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1664377
for: F/Eb Horn
Book, CD
Item no.: 297985
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 956618
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 955713
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Songbook PVG (Piano/Vocal/Guitar)
Item no.: 687038
Holiday medley
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 673398
for: Musical
Score, Parts
Item no.: 806369
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Songbook (piano, chords, text)
Item no.: 807420
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1533255
for: Ukulele
Music score
Item no.: 1533112
for: Mixed choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019631
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1017458
for: Jazz ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1017450
for: SATB
Choir score
Item no.: 1633953
for: SSA
Choir score
Item no.: 1633930
for: SATB, 3-Part Any Comb.
Choir score
Item no.: 1633128
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806121
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 805440
Cantata for the 2nd day of Pentecost
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 132543
for: 1–2 double basses; piano [guitar/accordion] ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 681568