“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.
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
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
Fiddler Collection
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 293940
Solos and Band Arrangements
Correlated with the Essential Elements Band Method
for: Winds class [youth concert band]
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 371008
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: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 104696
33 leichte Weihnachtslieder für eine oder zwei Sopranblockflöten
(mit Texten)
for: 1–2 descant recorders; guitar/keyboard, voice ad lib.
Ensemble score
Item no.: 473699
Rekonstruierte Improvisation von Anthony Hammond
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 497533
Meditation über das erste Präludium aus dem Wohltemperierten Klavier von Johann Sebastian Bach
bearbeitet für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1234
Lieder und Tänze, sehr leicht gesetzt
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 748218
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 499708
("O du fröhliche") op. 71
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 3648
G major
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 723608
Theatre of Voices Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 768068
8 Pastorellen, bearbeitet für Oboe und Orgel
for: Oboe, organ [piano]
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2441
Klavier
für 2-x Instrumente (Sinfonieorchester)
for: Flexible ensemble (3 voices); rhythm group (piano, guitar, bass, percussion) ad lib.
Additional part
Item no.: 669368
from "Concerto grosso" (Christmas Concerto)
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 724692
BuxWV 217
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4793
Music for Organ by Grimoaldo Macchia
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1353421
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1013524
Mary's Boy Child
amerikanisches Weihnachtslied für gemischten Chor mit Klavierbegleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 175864
for: Piano
Item no.: 396571
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 575662
Unterlegblatt für 6-Akkordzither
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 139191
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 140452
op.32
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 269572
40 Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt für Klavier mit Texten und Akkorden
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 104332
30 zweistimmige Weihnachtslieder in anspruchsvollen Sätzen
for: 2 recorders (SA); piano [guitar/accordion] ad lib.
Ensemble score (anthology)
Item no.: 173772
D
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1052687
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1050086
20 deutsche Weihnachtslieder im Jazzstil
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 335709
oder 11 leichte Weihnachtslieder
for: Children's choir, flute, keyboard instrument
Score
Item no.: 377558
BR-CPEB E 4
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 279231
for Brass Quintet
Musik für Blechbläser
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 246607
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 140745
for: Canto (Solisti), Coro SATB (mit Stimmteilungen), 2 Flöten, Oboe, Englischhorn, 2 Fagotte, Triangel, Klavier vierhändig
Score
Item no.: 635714
Solos and Band Arrangements
Correlated with the Essential Elements Band Method
for: Winds class [youth concert band]
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 445855
Audio-CD
Item no.: 674679
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686554
Weihnachtslied
Süddeutsche Weihnachtsmusik Band 19
for: 2 solo voices (SS), flute, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 174227
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 471466
Eine Sammlung mit leichten Arrangements für Klavier (mit Texten)
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 293791
Reprintausgabe
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 488276
for: 3 saxophones (AAT)
Score
Item no.: 488218
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151630
Spruce up your performances, concerts and cantatas with these fabulous Christmas pieces for two!
Best Duet Book Ever
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Music score
Item no.: 214577
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290249