“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.
Hinshaw Secular
for: SATB and Keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 1057848
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057846
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057392
Hinshaw Sacred
for: SAB or SSA, Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057143
Traditional Irish
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058672
Hinshaw Secular
for: SAB and Keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 1058077
Hinshaw Secular
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057302
Hinshaw Secular
for: 2-Part Choir and Keyboard
Choir score
Item no.: 1057073
Traditional
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 901436
Spiel in kleinen Gruppen
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones (quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 313996
for: Klarinettenensemble
Buch
Item no.: 612180
aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
for: Trumpet, trombone, organ
Organ score, Parts
Item no.: 780920
Audio-CD
Item no.: 611285
for 2 sopranos, bass and organ continuo 4 scores
for: 2 GES-H (S) VC BC
Part St
Item no.: 625658
Christmas Songbook
for: String ensemble, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 177954
Volksweise aus Portugal
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 656906
SET zu 3 Heften, kompatibel mit den anderen Ausgaben des Bandes
for: Melody instrument (C), 2 melodic instruments (B-flat)
Item no.: 1671645
Weihnachtskantate
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Ensemble score
Item no.: 409585
D-Dur
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392128
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1633689
SET zu 3 Heften, kompatibel mit den anderen Ausgaben des Bandes
for: 2 melodic instruments (C), melody instrument (B-flat)
Performance scores
Item no.: 1655102
Instrumentaltrios 2 – Weihnachten
for: 2 melodic instruments (C), string instrument
Performance scores
Item no.: 1655129
for ensemble score and parts
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1659611
Three Christmas Carols
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 681077
Spezial-Bearbeitung von Herwig Peychär!
for: Accordion
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 769742
As Dew in Aprille
for: Children's Choir [Female Choir] [SSS] and Harp [Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 498356
Acht Choralvorspiele zur Weihnachtszeit für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 664094
für Soli, gem Chor, Streicher, Bläser und Bc
Partitur (la)
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Item no.: 607866
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 1682201
3 Weihnachts-Fantasien
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 1658598
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 657615
Halters Music Collection 3
for: ST 6 IN C
Item no.: 346342
Hal Leonard Concert Band Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1107982
CD Ein Liederhörspiel für Weihnachten
Audio-CD
Item no.: 244813
CD
Item no.: 214798
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 455964
for: Male choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 647554
Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125023
Ausgabe für Blockflöten (SSAT)
for: Flexible ensemble
Item no.: 1655303
Europaeische Musik Des 17/18 Jahrhunderts
for: 3 (6) TRP, Pauken
Score, Parts
Item no.: 482872
for: 2 TRP 2 POS (+ TUBA)
Item no.: 216733
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 489273
Queenwood
for: Oboe
Item no.: 227480
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Item no.: 227866
Weihnachtslieder in leichten Sätzen für zwei Sopranblockflöten
for: 2 descant recorders
Ensemble score
Item no.: 223106
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122173
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1125789
Queenwood
for: Baritone saxophone
Item no.: 247643