John Rutter Sheet Music for Choir and Instruments
Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for SATB, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 3 trombones or 2 horns and one trombone, tuba), timpani, percussion, and organ, or for SATB and orchestra. Orchestral mate...
Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for SATB, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 3 trombones or 2 horns and one trombone, tuba), timpani, percussion, and organ, or for SATB and orchestra. Orchestral mate...
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For SATB and piano. This gentle setting has all the tranquillity and grace associated with this ancient text. It is fashioned from a simple rocking theme, which weaves serenely through different keys...
For SATB and piano. This gentle setting has all the tranquillity and grace associated with this ancient text. It is fashioned from a simple rocking theme, which weaves serenely through different keys...
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Für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel (oder Orgel, Harfe und Violoncello. Orgelauszug.
Für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel (oder Orgel, Harfe und Violoncello. Orgelauszug.
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An impressive, deeply felt anthem by a master of English choral music for 8-part mixed choir with optional organ continuo.
An impressive, deeply felt anthem by a master of English choral music for 8-part mixed choir with optional organ continuo.
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A bright and optimistic benediction contrasting passages of unison writing with homophonic chordal sections. The piece builds to a triumphant conclusion.
A bright and optimistic benediction contrasting passages of unison writing with homophonic chordal sections. The piece builds to a triumphant conclusion.
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For soprano solo, SATB choir, and organ. This popular movement from John Rutter's Requiem is presented here separately, with the accompaniment arranged for organ.
For soprano solo, SATB choir, and organ. This popular movement from John Rutter's Requiem is presented here separately, with the accompaniment arranged for organ.
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For SATB and piano or orchestra (2. 1. 2. 1-2. 0. 0. 0-Snare Drum. Hp-Str). This is a poised and stately setting of words from Psalm 139. This beautiful and accessible anthem is suitable for a variety...
For SATB and piano or orchestra (2. 1. 2. 1-2. 0. 0. 0-Snare Drum. Hp-Str). This is a poised and stately setting of words from Psalm 139. This beautiful and accessible anthem is suitable for a variety...
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Also available in The New Oxford Easy Anthem Book. The accompaniment for string orchestra is available on hire.
Also available in The New Oxford Easy Anthem Book. The accompaniment for string orchestra is available on hire.
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For SATB and piano or orchestra or brass ensemble. Also available in Carols for Choirs 3 and 100 Carols for Choirs. The accompaniments for orchestra and brass ensemble are available on hire. There is...
For SATB and piano or orchestra or brass ensemble. Also available in Carols for Choirs 3 and 100 Carols for Choirs. The accompaniments for orchestra and brass ensemble are available on hire. There is...
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Christ the Lord Is Risen Today is an arrangement of the Easter hymn tune 'Lyra Davidica'. Not to be confused with Rutter's own composition, Christ the Lord is risen again, published as part of the Joh...
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today is an arrangement of the Easter hymn tune 'Lyra Davidica'. Not to be confused with Rutter's own composition, Christ the Lord is risen again, published as part of the Joh...
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For soprano soloist, mixed choir, and orchestra or ensemble (with organ) This is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century. The texts (in Latin and English)...
For soprano soloist, mixed choir, and orchestra or ensemble (with organ) This is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century. The texts (in Latin and English)...
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for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and the composer's original chamber instrumentation Orchestral and vocal material is available on hire. Organ plays from the vocal score.
for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and the composer's original chamber instrumentation Orchestral and vocal material is available on hire. Organ plays from the vocal score.
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For soprano soloist, mixed choir, and orchestra or ensemble (with organ) This is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century. The texts (in Latin and English)...
For soprano soloist, mixed choir, and orchestra or ensemble (with organ) This is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century. The texts (in Latin and English)...
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for SATB and orchestra John Rutter's setting of the Te Deum is jubilant, straightforward, and appealing. It is well-suited to performance in choral concerts as well as sacred settings. Material for th...
for SATB and orchestra John Rutter's setting of the Te Deum is jubilant, straightforward, and appealing. It is well-suited to performance in choral concerts as well as sacred settings. Material for th...
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John Rutter's setting of the Te Deum is jubilant, straightforward, and appealing. It is well-suited to performance in choral concerts as well as sacred settings. Material for this orchestral version,...
John Rutter's setting of the Te Deum is jubilant, straightforward, and appealing. It is well-suited to performance in choral concerts as well as sacred settings. Material for this orchestral version,...
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This carol is also available in Carols for Choirs 3, and 100 Carols for Choirs. All the instrumental accompaniments are available for hire. The arrangement for orchestra is also available on sale.
This carol is also available in Carols for Choirs 3, and 100 Carols for Choirs. All the instrumental accompaniments are available for hire. The arrangement for orchestra is also available on sale.
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A welcome collection of piano transcriptions, made by the composer, of eight of his best-loved choral pieces, from early classics such as 'The Lord bless you and keep you' to recent gems like 'A flowe...
A welcome collection of piano transcriptions, made by the composer, of eight of his best-loved choral pieces, from early classics such as 'The Lord bless you and keep you' to recent gems like 'A flowe...
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'Visions' is a four-movement showpiece for solo violin in unique combination with upper-voice choir, harp, and strings (or organ). Inspired by the idea of 'Jerusalem' both as a Holy City and a utopian...
'Visions' is a four-movement showpiece for solo violin in unique combination with upper-voice choir, harp, and strings (or organ). Inspired by the idea of 'Jerusalem' both as a Holy City and a utopian...
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for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, organ). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's arrangement in B major. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, organ). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's arrangement in B major. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
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for SATB and four-piece ensemble. Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's classic anthem. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the SA, SATB, and TTBB vocal scores.
for SATB and four-piece ensemble. Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's classic anthem. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the SA, SATB, and TTBB vocal scores.
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for SATB and four-piece ensemble (piccolo, oboe, harp, organ) Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's popular carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the versio...
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (piccolo, oboe, harp, organ) Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's popular carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the versio...
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for SATB and four-piece ensemble (piccolo, oboe, harp, organ) Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's vibrant carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (piccolo, oboe, harp, organ) Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's vibrant carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
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for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, piano). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's arrangement in 2/2 time. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with t...
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, piano). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's arrangement in 2/2 time. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with t...
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for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, organ). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's uplifting carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, organ). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's uplifting carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
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for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, piano). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's lively arrangement of the Spanish carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, piano). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's lively arrangement of the Spanish carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts.
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Full choral sound in good British tradition! Sheet music by John Rutter
John Milford Rutter (born September 24, 1945 in London), John Rutter for short, is one of the best-known contemporary composers of choral music.
While still studying music in Cambridge, Rutter created his first choral works and recorded them with the Clare College Choir under his direction. Among them the popular “Shepherd's Pipe Carol” (composed at the age of 18) and his “Gloria” for mixed choir, wind instruments, percussion and organ.
His talent and musical ability earned John Rutter the position of Music Director at Clare College at the age of 30 – this, in turn, helped the college choir to leap onto the international stage under the direction of John Rutter.
After only four years in office, Rutter decided to resign from his post in 1979 and to focus fully on his compositional and artistic work, for example as a producer of recordings of the chamber choir Cambridge Singers, which he had founded (descended from former members of the college choir).
“A ‘contemporary’ Composer: Can Rutter's choral music be heard and sung?” - Yes!
Anyone who thinks of “contemporary” Music that only thinks of strictly serial and discordant compositions does not do justice to this adjective. Since the 1970s, a longing for clear harmonies, melodic structures and interesting (but not too difficult) rhythms has led to the development of a new style of music in choral and church music (but not only!), which has become unwieldy attribute “contemporary” completely new life. And so the music of John Rutter can also be classified under the „Postmodernism” style, which, among other things, is directed against rigid principles and forms of composition. “Anything goes” one could say. Or (intended in a positive way): “What do I care about Adorno's opinion!”
One technique of postmodern music, for example, is to resort to stylistics, elements and structures from other epochs and genres and skillfully develop them with one's own musical ideas into a personal style. This can also be found in the works of John Rutter, which were deliberately created under the influence of traditional English choral and cathedral music, peppered with elements of popular musical forms.
In short: John Rutter's music is rich in full, harmonious sounds and clear melody lines. The arrangements are designed in such a way that even with a small cast a rich radiance is achieved: In the chamber version of his “Magnificat” In addition to a small mixed choir, a mezzo-soprano or soprano soloist, harp and percussion, there is only one woodwind instrument (brass is replaced by an organ) and a string group 2/2/2/1/1. Watch and listen to the YouTube recording of the Kamerorkest Kamerata Zuid! You will lack for nothing. Here it becomes clear that John Rutter dealt intensively with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach: Little effort with a big effect!
In addition, John Rutter's music exudes positive energy almost throughout. Even his mass “Mass of the Children” (First performed in New York's Carnegie Hall in 2003), which John Rutter composed on the occasion of his son who died in a traffic accident at the age of 19, carries an unshakable optimism about it.
“Speaking of ‘chamber music’: Is there also instrumental music by John Rutter?”
Yes, there are. Let's stay with the reference to Bach: With his “Suite Antique” John Rutter unmistakably pays homage to the great Leipzig master and his “Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050” - both in the instrumentation and in the structure of the six movements, which are based on the baroque or classical style.
And John Rutter also composed for solo instruments, for example for flute and piano, oboe and piano, Organ solo pieces or also own transcriptions of his works for piano solo .
You can get an overview of Rutter's instrumental music by opening the complete catalog of sheet music from John Rutter and use our filters “Category” and “Sheet Music for instruments” to limit the list of results according to the instruments offered.
“Great Britain has a proud tradition of concert bands. Is there also something by John Rutter?”
Even if John Rutter himself did not compose for concert band (Rutter's original works are available from the British publisher Oxford University Press), a few publishers and their arrangers have taken his works and published arrangements for concert band.
Sheet music by John Rutter is also available for other types of ensembles. We're happy to help you find it!
You will find sheet music from John Rutter arrangements and John Rutter original compositions for these formations here:
- John Rutter sheet music for concert band
- John Rutter sheet music for Brass Band
- John Rutter sheet music for brass ensemble
- John Rutter sheet music for mixed ensemble
- John Rutter sheet music for woodwind ensemble
- John Rutter sheet music for string orchestra
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And of course we are also happy to list the extensive choral works by John Rutter for you here. Enrich your concert program with these popular compositions:
- John Rutter sheet music for mixed choir
- John Rutter sheet music for women's choir
- John Rutter sheet music for male choir
- John Rutter sheet music for children's choir or 1-2 part choir
- John Rutter sheet music for various choir arrangements
You can search specifically for compositions by John Rutter in our web shop,
e.g. in the notation rutter schau auf die welt, to get sheet music editions of the German version of John Rutter's Anthem for children's choir “Look at the World” .