“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.
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1549899
Choralbearbeitungen zu Advent und Weihnachten
bläser + orgel 8
for: 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, organ
Score for winds in C
Item no.: 693321
for: Piano
Item no.: 1637452
für Soli, gem Chor und Band Saxophone
for: SAX (1-2)
Orchesterstimme
Item no.: 631822
for: Guitar
Guitar (single part)
Item no.: 631788
for: Choir (2 voices), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 687255
für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Violoncello/Kontrabass
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671134
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 621397
Traditionelle und moderne Lieder für Martins- und Laternenfeiern
Spielbar ab Quartett
for: 4 wind instruments; piano [accordion/guitar] ad lib.
Part 2 in B-flat (clarinet / trumpet / flugelhorn)
Item no.: 497837
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 476508
Shawnee Press
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 293058
3rd Day of Christmas [St John's Day]
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 458328
Nr. 7 Weihnachtsmotette (Ecce Sacerdos)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 106055
from Cantata No. 147
for: SAB with organ
Choir score
Item no.: 317374
Southern Music
for: Flute ensemble
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 926980
Unison
for: Unison Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 917989
A Christmas Song
for: 2 trumpets (C/B-flat), 2 trombones (quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1502
Boosey & Hawkes Winter Music for Concert Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 689407
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1. Trompete, 2. Trompete, Pauke, Streicher, Basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 425510
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 883025
King's Singers Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 477062
für 6-stimmigen Frauenchor
for: Women's choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 381401
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 642795
Hinshaw Concert
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602849
from Materna Requiem
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 745551
Pop Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 798339
aus: Israelsbrünnlein. Geistliche Madrigale
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 131373
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1019920
Secular Christmas Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 808212
Medley
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 640875
for: 3 violins, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 582855
Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis
for: Unisono
Choir score
Item no.: 586000
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 475189
Weihnachten
for: Two-Part Choir and opt. Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 862506
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 865640
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 616013
Paperback
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1667479
(For unto us a child is born)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471214
Oxford Carols
for: Mixed choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 460548
Oxford Christmas Carols
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 371889
aus: Sechs Marianische Hymnen
for: Voice (S/T), organ
Score
Item no.: 330689
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
for: 4 recorders (AATB)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4272
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959868
Traditionelle und moderne Lieder für Martins- und Laternenfeiern
Spielbar ab Quartett
for: 4 wind instruments; piano [accordion/guitar] ad lib.
Part 3 in C (trombone / baritone horn)
Item no.: 497844
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1117255
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097069
for: TTBB Chamber Ensemble
Choir score
Item no.: 1037993
Geistliche Musik
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1551199