“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.
de Nativitate Circumsione et Epifania Domini
aus: Musici Operis
Prag, 1586
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6084
for: 4 saxophones
Sheet music
Item no.: 1663020
Christmas Collection
for: Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 866088
Choralvorspiel, op. 16, Nr. 35
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4464
Edition Schott
for: Kinderchor, Harmonika und Klavier
Set of parts
Item no.: 732410
Ellens dritter Gesang (Hymne an die Jungfrau), aus Walter Scotts "Fräulein vom See"
D. 839 (op. 52, Nr. 6)
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2222
Christmas Carol for Trombone and Piano
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio files (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 2465
Christmas Collection
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 872135
aus: Geistliche Lieder und Arien
(G. Chr. Schemellis Gesangbuch, Leipzig 1736)
for: Voice (low), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 2816
for: Violin, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662938
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 744075
Christmas Carol for Mixed Choir (SAB)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2464
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1663531
SATB w/opt. Handbells
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 919276
for Piano Solo
18 beautiful arrangements
Willis
for: Piano [keyboard]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 1478403
Sacred Folio
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 809467
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 751093
for: Viola, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662937
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 trombones (AT), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, choir score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6352
pour flûte
for: Flute
Music lesson book, CD, online audio
Item no.: 682720
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 775959
Christmas Collection
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 881232
Flex-Band Grade 1
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices); drums ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 797531
Willis
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 934110
Guitar
for: 5 String Bass
Buch
Item no.: 1106434
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342687
for: SSA and Piano, Harp, Oboe and Opt Small Percussion
Score
Item no.: 938527
Christmas at Svingen
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 768659
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1076946
3-5 octave Handbells
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855547
Psalm for Christmas Midnight Mass
for: SATB- Cantor- Assembly
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1155165
Southern Music
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 924241
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1150368
Handbell Part C5-C7 (23 bells)
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 855550
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1040931
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1533282
für SSA
Singpartitur
Vocal score
Item no.: 1610016
Hymnen und Choräle
for: SATB, Handbells & Flute
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 918239
A Cantata for Christmas
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1655688
for: SATB, Congr, Piano + Perc, Brass Chamber Ens., Chamber Orch, Orch
Set of parts
Item no.: 906142
for: Percussion Septet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 912520
for: Concert band; narrator ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 687295
Choral
for: 2-Part Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1656914
Harold Flammer Christmas
for: SATB, Guitar, Violin and Percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 1126199
GIA Christmas
for: Unison Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158162
Shawnee Press
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1123857
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 911043
Choral
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1124444