“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: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216080
Kantate zum Neujahrsfest HoWV II.29
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1667175
limitierte Sonderedition
Liederprojekt in Zusammenarbeit mit SWR2
4 CDs
Item no.: 673089
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1203402
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: Strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 344516
für Orgel
for: Organ
Item no.: 344097
for: Organ
Item no.: 343250
for: 2 voices, piano
Item no.: 472047
Offertoire pour le temps de Noel
pour Orgue
for: Organ
Item no.: 490561
for: 3 THRN (BAR-B)
Item no.: 377795
Weihnachtslieder-Adaptionen
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 770333
for: 4 tubas
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1645110
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1122701
for Great Organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 672801
Oratorio
on passages from the Holy Bible and the Catholic liturgy
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 488833
for: 2 violins
Item no.: 558560
for: Choir a Cappella
CD
Item no.: 935077
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 934894
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934776
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929673
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 929189
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 929051
for: Trombone, Baritone B.C., Bassoon, Tuba
Book
Item no.: 928058
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 912320
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 932609
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930893
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 947173
for: Handbells
Book
Item no.: 948868
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948493
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 944238
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 941287
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 940806
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 940648
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 941556
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 937566
for: Medium High Voice
CD
Item no.: 937442
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937347
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 937344
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 939622
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 938542
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 938209
for: Piano & B-Flat Instrument
Book
Item no.: 937778
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935741
for: Piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 939029
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 938990
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 938922
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 937036