John Rutter Sheet Music for Choir and Instruments
An unaccompanied motet dedicated to Hubert Parry, setting text by the English poet John Skelton (c.1463-1529).
An unaccompanied motet dedicated to Hubert Parry, setting text by the English poet John Skelton (c.1463-1529).
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A highly expressive setting of the biblical text, this simple work is at once tender and profound. It was composed for a memorial service for Edward T. Chapman, the Director of Music at Highgate Schoo...
A highly expressive setting of the biblical text, this simple work is at once tender and profound. It was composed for a memorial service for Edward T. Chapman, the Director of Music at Highgate Schoo...
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A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. The thirteen movements mark the different stages of life,...
A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. The thirteen movements mark the different stages of life,...
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This optimistic piece is characterized by catchy, singable melodies and a syncopated rhythmic drive in the vocal and piano writing. The text was co-written by the composer and the vocal percussionist...
This optimistic piece is characterized by catchy, singable melodies and a syncopated rhythmic drive in the vocal and piano writing. The text was co-written by the composer and the vocal percussionist...
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One of McGlade's longer settings, As the hart begins simply, before expanding into a more complex section with fluctuating time signatures and shifting tonalities. Ideal for advanced choirs in a sacre...
One of McGlade's longer settings, As the hart begins simply, before expanding into a more complex section with fluctuating time signatures and shifting tonalities. Ideal for advanced choirs in a sacre...
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This vibrant collection presents five jazzy settings of poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence. The bass and drum parts may be played as written or used as a guide from which the player may imp...
This vibrant collection presents five jazzy settings of poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence. The bass and drum parts may be played as written or used as a guide from which the player may imp...
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This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's When Icicles Hang. This set contains: 1 x fl 1, 1 x fl 2, 1 x hp, 1 x hpschd, 4 x v...
This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's When Icicles Hang. This set contains: 1 x fl 1, 1 x fl 2, 1 x hp, 1 x hpschd, 4 x v...
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Instrumentation for Down by the riverside: 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, drum kit (trap set), piano, harp (optional), and strings. This set contains the following string parts: 4x vln I, 4x vln II, 3...
Instrumentation for Down by the riverside: 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, drum kit (trap set), piano, harp (optional), and strings. This set contains the following string parts: 4x vln I, 4x vln II, 3...
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This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's cycle of six choral settings with small orchestra When Icicles Hang.
This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's cycle of six choral settings with small orchestra When Icicles Hang.
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This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's When Icicles Hang. This set contains: 1 x fl 1, 1 x fl 2, 1 x hp, 1 x hpschd, 4 x v...
This setting of a song from Act II of Shakespeare's As You Like It was originally published as part of John Rutter's When Icicles Hang. This set contains: 1 x fl 1, 1 x fl 2, 1 x hp, 1 x hpschd, 4 x v...
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Full score for John Rutter's lively arrangement of this barnstorming American folk-song.
Full score for John Rutter's lively arrangement of this barnstorming American folk-song.
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This uplifting work by American composer Reginal Wright sets a text by the nineteenth-century poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy. The powerful words are sung to a memorable melody embellished with syncopation...
This uplifting work by American composer Reginal Wright sets a text by the nineteenth-century poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy. The powerful words are sung to a memorable melody embellished with syncopation...
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Full score for Rutter's arrangement of this buoyant Cornish carol. With its combination of pagan and Christian imagery and references to the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this carol is well suited to...
Full score for Rutter's arrangement of this buoyant Cornish carol. With its combination of pagan and Christian imagery and references to the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this carol is well suited to...
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Full score for Rutter's arrangement of this popular French carol. Compatible with the JRAE vocal score and the Joy to the world! collection.
Full score for Rutter's arrangement of this popular French carol. Compatible with the JRAE vocal score and the Joy to the world! collection.
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Published for the very first time, this is a beautiful arrangement of the old German tune 'Lasst uns das Kindlein wiegen', setting words adapted from an old Scots poem by Ursula Wood. With flowing con...
Published for the very first time, this is a beautiful arrangement of the old German tune 'Lasst uns das Kindlein wiegen', setting words adapted from an old Scots poem by Ursula Wood. With flowing con...
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Full score for John Rutter's lively and joyful arrangement of this popular Christmas-themed African-American spiritual, compatible with the JRAE vocal score and the O holy night collection.
Full score for John Rutter's lively and joyful arrangement of this popular Christmas-themed African-American spiritual, compatible with the JRAE vocal score and the O holy night collection.
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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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An organ duet based on the theme 'O Filii et Filiae'
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In this joyous and colourful piano concerto, John Rutter both reflects, and reflects upon, the many soundworlds and styles that have inspired him. There are echoes of Ravel, Gershwin, Satie, Ibert, an...
In this joyous and colourful piano concerto, John Rutter both reflects, and reflects upon, the many soundworlds and styles that have inspired him. There are echoes of Ravel, Gershwin, Satie, Ibert, an...
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This lovely anthem sets a biblical text to a warm and flowing tune. Suitable for use in wedding ceremonies and throughout the church year, this anthem will appeal to all fans of Rutter's music. 12 pag...
This lovely anthem sets a biblical text to a warm and flowing tune. Suitable for use in wedding ceremonies and throughout the church year, this anthem will appeal to all fans of Rutter's music. 12 pag...
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A tender and lovely setting which is easy to sing. Particularly appropriate for weddings. The orchestral material is available on hire.
A tender and lovely setting which is easy to sing. Particularly appropriate for weddings. The orchestral material is available on hire.
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An easy anthem for SATB and organ, with words and music by the composer, presented here in Japanese translation. An orchestral accompaniment compatible with the SATB version is available on hire.
An easy anthem for SATB and organ, with words and music by the composer, presented here in Japanese translation. An orchestral accompaniment compatible with the SATB version is available on hire.
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An easy anthem with words and music by the composer. Presented here in Japanese translation.
An easy anthem with words and music by the composer. Presented here in Japanese translation.
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This tender piece was composed in memory of the victims of Fukushima. With a simple, appealing melody, rich harmonies, and a flowing accompaniment, A flower remembered is both reflective and heartfelt...
This tender piece was composed in memory of the victims of Fukushima. With a simple, appealing melody, rich harmonies, and a flowing accompaniment, A flower remembered is both reflective and heartfelt...
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Originally published in a version for SATB, this tender piece will appeal to all fans of John Rutter's music. Composed in memory of the victims of Fukushima, it is both reflective and heartfelt. This...
Originally published in a version for SATB, this tender piece will appeal to all fans of John Rutter's music. Composed in memory of the victims of Fukushima, it is both reflective and heartfelt. This...
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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
- John Rutter sheet music for string orchestra
- John Rutter sheet music for chamber orchestra
- John Rutter sheet music for symphony orchestra
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” .