“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: Organ manuals [harmonium]
Music score
Item no.: 113546
for: 3 recorders (SAT)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1703592
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 357234
Audio-CD
Item no.: 181901
for: Women's choir (SMezA), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 614011
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 556689
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 256229
for: Organ, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 351815
Klavierauszug vom Komponisten (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284684
Reformation Day, Day of Repentance, Holy Communion, Memorial Day
No. 45-55
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 285809
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115789
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283434
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 163421
Eine musikalische Reise durch die Reformation
(Instrumente ad lib)
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 663322
for: Voice (alto), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 635846
for: SOLI (SSAATTB) gemischter Chor 2 Flöten 2 Oboen 2 Hörner, Streicher, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 444857
for: Flute, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 158804
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 296615
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 381424
for mixed chorus and chamber orchestra
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1614
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 682462
Partitur und 17 Einzelstimmen
Ensemble ad libitum
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660820
for: Mixed choir, the parish, brass winds
Score
Item no.: 622185
"Gott sei mir gnädig"
Schott Archive
for: Voice (high), piano [organ]
Music score
Item no.: 695280
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 111418
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 395389
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 621189
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 493520
Blues und Passacaglia
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 668014
for: Organ
Item no.: 565962
for: 2. Violine
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 645928
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 630464
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 617233
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 430259
Book
Item no.: 136482
Book
Item no.: 118865
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1696584
for: Soloists, Choir and Piano
Score
Item no.: 1703497
Twenty-five sumptuous slow organ solos
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 133507
for: Organ
Item no.: 1703928
for: Hohe Stimme, Melodieinstrument, Basso continuo
Stimmensatz, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 466826
for: Orchestra, Solo S, SATB
Score
Item no.: 296429
for: Soloists, Choir and Piano
Score
Item no.: 161039
2 Books (Hardcover)
Item no.: 765230
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 200040
for: hohe Singstimme und Klavier (Orgel/Harmonium)
Item no.: 356740
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 265538
for: Organ
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 171628
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 117617