John Rutter Sheet Music for Choir and Instruments
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, organ). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's carol arrangement. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the acc...
for SATB and four-piece ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, organ). Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's carol arrangement. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the acc...
- Mixed Choir (SATB) and Ensemble
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This characterful trio of Shakespeare settings draws together popular texts from Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and the sonnets into a charming and playful concert work for mixed choir and sma...
This characterful trio of Shakespeare settings draws together popular texts from Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and the sonnets into a charming and playful concert work for mixed choir and sma...
- Mixed choir (SATB) and Chamber Orchestra
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For ST and piano or orchestra. Offprinted from the anthology Opera Choruses, this is a short, beguiling piece from Madama Butterfly. - Short but effective piece - Edited by John Rutter
For ST and piano or orchestra. Offprinted from the anthology Opera Choruses, this is a short, beguiling piece from Madama Butterfly. - Short but effective piece - Edited by John Rutter
- Mixed Choir (ST) and Piano
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Opera Choruses is a collection of 35 classic opera choruses, skilfully arranged as separate concert works, all with excellent English singing translations and practical keyboard reductions.
Opera Choruses is a collection of 35 classic opera choruses, skilfully arranged as separate concert works, all with excellent English singing translations and practical keyboard reductions.
- Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
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- John Rutter Clifford Bartlett
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- String Orchestra
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for SATB and organ or string orchestra The string accompaniment is available on hire and for sale.
for SATB and organ or string orchestra The string accompaniment is available on hire and for sale.
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John Rutter has created an arrangement of his much-loved Shepherd's Pipe Carol for two-part upper-voices, enabling a broader range of upper-voice choirs to access this festive favourite.
John Rutter has created an arrangement of his much-loved Shepherd's Pipe Carol for two-part upper-voices, enabling a broader range of upper-voice choirs to access this festive favourite.
- Women's Choir (SA) and Piano
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Zu 'Candlelight Carol' ließ sich John Rutter durch das Gemälde 'Nativity at Night' (ca. 1490) des niederländischen Malers Geertgen tot Sint Jans inspirieren, dessen Mittelpunkt die Mutterliebe der ers...
Zu 'Candlelight Carol' ließ sich John Rutter durch das Gemälde 'Nativity at Night' (ca. 1490) des niederländischen Malers Geertgen tot Sint Jans inspirieren, dessen Mittelpunkt die Mutterliebe der ers...
- Women's Choir (SSAA) and Organ
- Organ Score
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A lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer and expressed through artful word-painting. Christ our Emmanuel may be ac...
A lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer and expressed through artful word-painting. Christ our Emmanuel may be ac...
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A lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer and expressed through artful word-painting. Christ our Emmanuel may be ac...
A lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer and expressed through artful word-painting. Christ our Emmanuel may be ac...
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This much-loved carol is presented with background information and helpful performance hints. Recognising the frequency with which this piece is performed with organ accompaniment, John Rutter has mad...
This much-loved carol is presented with background information and helpful performance hints. Recognising the frequency with which this piece is performed with organ accompaniment, John Rutter has mad...
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For mixed voices with a simplified piano accompaniment.
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In keeping with its title, this Christmas carol is bursting with joyous energy. Taking Lowell Mason's melody, which was based on an earlier melody by Handel, Rutter enriches the texture in the lower v...
In keeping with its title, this Christmas carol is bursting with joyous energy. Taking Lowell Mason's melody, which was based on an earlier melody by Handel, Rutter enriches the texture in the lower v...
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Offprinted from Weihnachts Carols for Choirs. The orchestral accompaniment is available on rental/hire.
Offprinted from Weihnachts Carols for Choirs. The orchestral accompaniment is available on rental/hire.
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Written in 1978 for the choir of Clare College, Cambridge, this gentle, dreamy lullaby has gone on to become one of John Rutter's most popular carols. Offprinted from Weihnachts Carols for Choirs.
Written in 1978 for the choir of Clare College, Cambridge, this gentle, dreamy lullaby has gone on to become one of John Rutter's most popular carols. Offprinted from Weihnachts Carols for Choirs.
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- 50 carols for every occasion - well-loved tunes in fresh arrangements - original compositions, including many specially written for the collection - a wide range of composers - carols for audience o...
- 50 carols for every occasion - well-loved tunes in fresh arrangements - original compositions, including many specially written for the collection - a wide range of composers - carols for audience o...
- Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
- Sheet Music
- John Rutter David Willcocks
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Originally published in a version for mixed voices, this much-loved Rutter carol has now been adapted by the composer for performance by upper-voice choirs. This set contains the following parts: 4 x...
Originally published in a version for mixed voices, this much-loved Rutter carol has now been adapted by the composer for performance by upper-voice choirs. This set contains the following parts: 4 x...
- Women's Choir (SSA), Women's Choir (SSS) and Strings
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Zu 'Candlelight Carol' ließ sich John Rutter durch das Gemälde 'Nativity at Night' (ca. 1490) des niederländischen Malers Geertgen tot Sint Jans inspirieren, dessen Mittelpunkt die Mutterliebe der ers...
Zu 'Candlelight Carol' ließ sich John Rutter durch das Gemälde 'Nativity at Night' (ca. 1490) des niederländischen Malers Geertgen tot Sint Jans inspirieren, dessen Mittelpunkt die Mutterliebe der ers...
- Mixed Choir (SATBB), Flute, Oboe, Harp and Strings
- Set of Parts - Flute, Oboe, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello and Double Bass (Download)
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Inspired by Geertgen's painting Nativity at Night, Candlelight Carol centres around the love of a mother on that first night in the stable. The orchestral material is compatible with both the SSATB an...
Inspired by Geertgen's painting Nativity at Night, Candlelight Carol centres around the love of a mother on that first night in the stable. The orchestral material is compatible with both the SSATB an...
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Dedicated to the Oxford Vaccine Team and premiered by Sir Bryn Terfel, The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Choir of Merton College in a special tribute concert, Joseph's Carol sets words by the...
Dedicated to the Oxford Vaccine Team and premiered by Sir Bryn Terfel, The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Choir of Merton College in a special tribute concert, Joseph's Carol sets words by the...
- Medium Voice, Mixed Choir (SAATB) and Chamber Orchestra
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Full score for John Rutter's accompanied arrangement of Gruber's Silent Night. Please note that it is not compatible with the John Rutter Anniversary Edition arrangement of the carol (9780193407510).
Full score for John Rutter's accompanied arrangement of Gruber's Silent Night. Please note that it is not compatible with the John Rutter Anniversary Edition arrangement of the carol (9780193407510).
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Set of parts for John Rutter's arrangement of 'Joy to the World'. The carol is available as an individual choral leaflet and as part of the Christmas collection Joy to the World; this set of parts is...
Set of parts for John Rutter's arrangement of 'Joy to the World'. The carol is available as an individual choral leaflet and as part of the Christmas collection Joy to the World; this set of parts is...
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Accompanies X254 (SATB) and T111 (SA) versions.
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This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting te...
This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting te...
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This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting te...
This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting te...
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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
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- John Rutter sheet music for woodwind ensemble
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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” .