“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.
Cantata for the 4th Sunday in Advent.
Reconstruction Uwe Wolf
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 206085
for SATB or equal/unison voices with piano and percussion ad lib.
Christmas Carols
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano; guitar, bass, percussion ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 460023
Sing this night, for a boy is born in Bethlehem
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra; children's choir ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 432133
Traditional English Round for male choir (TBB) and piano
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Male choir (TBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 679911
for piano (with text)
Alfred's Basic Piano Library
for: Piano; voice ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 141973
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 320470
19th Century Basque Carol
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 632806
Canadian Brass Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 816547
Young Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 816733
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SABar), 2 trumpets, piano
Score
Item no.: 1015351
Hinshaw Sacred
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1059079
20 Christmas Carols
for: 1-2 Gitarren
Music score
Item no.: 743366
7 Christmas Carols on English Christmas texts from the 15th & 16th Centuries
for: Mixed choir (SATB), harp [piano]
Score
Item no.: 1549898
Cantata for the 1st day of Christmas
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549505
Brookfield Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1556189
Anglo Music Midway Series
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 976029
Anglo Music Midway Series
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 975956
Debut Series (Anglo)
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 975853
Anglo Music Play-Along Series
for: Oboe, piano
Book, CD
Item no.: 975252
TV, Film, Musical und Show
Buch
Item no.: 298877
Piano Play-Along Volume 34
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 799557
Performance / Accompaniment CD
for: Children's choir (2 parts), piano; rhythm group (guitar, bass, drums) ad lib.
CD
Item no.: 811159
Vocal Solo or Alto Saxophone Solo with Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 808827
Alfred Choral Designs
for: Choir (2 voices), piano [youth concert band]
Choir score
Item no.: 696796
Mixed Voices & Accompaniment
Choral Signature Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 630587
Low Voice with Online Accompaniment
for: Voice (low)
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1532640
40 Seasonal Favorites
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Buch
Item no.: 1533151
Clarinet Book with Online Audio
for: Clarinet
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1533101
for: SSAATTBB and Oboe
Choir score
Item no.: 1343145
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1343131
for: Mixed choir a cappella
CD
Item no.: 693252
Organ
Book
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1634164
Carols for Christmas
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1672414
Full Orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 812670
A Musical Tweet for Christmas
for: Musical
Score, Parts, CD
Item no.: 812065
A Holiday Musical Infestation!
for: Musical
Buch + CD
Item no.: 808430
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 799696
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 815289
from Beauty and the Beast – The Enchanted Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 632770
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 489800
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 344378
Youth Sing Out (Choral)
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 804906
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 813589
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 812447
Sacred Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806577
Fantasy on Old Carols
for: Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 876307
Christmas Collection
for: Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 874387
On O Come, All Ye Faithfull
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 877615