John Rutter Sheet Music for Choir and Instruments
Gathered in this volume are some of the finest motets and related pieces for the season of Christmas. Christmas Motets provides a superb choice of pieces for all choirs looking for something new. John...
Gathered in this volume are some of the finest motets and related pieces for the season of Christmas. Christmas Motets provides a superb choice of pieces for all choirs looking for something new. John...
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Bring festive radiance to your holiday season with "Eight Christmas Carols Set 1", published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This exquisite sheet music edition offers an atmospheric collectio...
Bring festive radiance to your holiday season with "Eight Christmas Carols Set 1", published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This exquisite sheet music edition offers an atmospheric collectio...
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For SATB and piano or organ or small orchestra. Also available in Twelve Christmas Carols Set 1 and Advent for Choirs. Score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
For SATB and piano or organ or small orchestra. Also available in Twelve Christmas Carols Set 1 and Advent for Choirs. Score and orchestral parts are available on hire.
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Bring festive elegance to your Christmas concert with "Child In A Manger," a timelessly beautiful choral setting published by Oxford University Press. This moving piece for mixed choir (SATB) captures...
Bring festive elegance to your Christmas concert with "Child In A Manger," a timelessly beautiful choral setting published by Oxford University Press. This moving piece for mixed choir (SATB) captures...
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For SS and SSA unaccompanied (The holly and the ivy has an optional keyboard accompaniment). Also available in Carols for Choirs 4.
For SS and SSA unaccompanied (The holly and the ivy has an optional keyboard accompaniment). Also available in Carols for Choirs 4.
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The luscious sounds of this piece match the beauty and gentleness of the text, with words and music by John Rutter. The choral part is shown in the score, but is not included as a part of the set. Thi...
The luscious sounds of this piece match the beauty and gentleness of the text, with words and music by John Rutter. The choral part is shown in the score, but is not included as a part of the set. Thi...
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John Rutter wrote this great work for the 2012 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols held each Christmas Eve at King's College. This arrangement is written for combined concert band and chorus, but may...
John Rutter wrote this great work for the 2012 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols held each Christmas Eve at King's College. This arrangement is written for combined concert band and chorus, but may...
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With words and music written by John Rutter, Nativity Carol is one of his earlier and frequently performed carols for Christmas. The beauty and simplicity lends itself to an arrangement for Concert/Wi...
With words and music written by John Rutter, Nativity Carol is one of his earlier and frequently performed carols for Christmas. The beauty and simplicity lends itself to an arrangement for Concert/Wi...
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All Bells in Paradise is a composition by the English composer John Rutter. This, originally for boys' choir and organ composed carol, fascinates by a wonderful, catchy melody. Andreas Ludwig Schulte...
All Bells in Paradise is a composition by the English composer John Rutter. This, originally for boys' choir and organ composed carol, fascinates by a wonderful, catchy melody. Andreas Ludwig Schulte...
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Set of parts 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)...
Set of parts 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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For SATB and small orchestra. Full score for John Rutter's highly original arrangement of the popular Christmas carol. The carol is available both as part of the Joy to the World collection and as an...
For SATB and small orchestra. Full score for John Rutter's highly original arrangement of the popular Christmas carol. The carol is available both as part of the Joy to the World collection and as an...
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Experience the Christmas story from a touching, intimate perspective: In "Joseph's Carol", the composer sets their own heartfelt words to recount the nativity through the eyes of Joseph. This evocativ...
Experience the Christmas story from a touching, intimate perspective: In "Joseph's Carol", the composer sets their own heartfelt words to recount the nativity through the eyes of Joseph. This evocativ...
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Experience the Christmas story from a unique and deeply touching perspective: With 'Joseph's Carol', Oxford University Press presents a moving choral work that recounts the events of the Nativity thro...
Experience the Christmas story from a unique and deeply touching perspective: With 'Joseph's Carol', Oxford University Press presents a moving choral work that recounts the events of the Nativity thro...
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Available for the first time as a single octavo, Rutter's arrangement of this buoyant Cornish carol is sure to continue to delight choirs and audiences alike. The composer has taken the opportunity of...
Available for the first time as a single octavo, Rutter's arrangement of this buoyant Cornish carol is sure to continue to delight choirs and audiences alike. The composer has taken the opportunity of...
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Set of parts for John Rutter's tender Christmas song. With a simple, appealing melody and a flowing accompaniment, The Colors of Christmas evokes a touching sense of longing for the joys of the festiv...
Set of parts for John Rutter's tender Christmas song. With a simple, appealing melody and a flowing accompaniment, The Colors of Christmas evokes a touching sense of longing for the joys of the festiv...
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Bring festive splendour to your Christmas concert with John Rutter’s uplifting choral work, "Rejoice and be merry". This radiant and joyful carol masterfully combines the sound of a mixed choir (SATB)...
Bring festive splendour to your Christmas concert with John Rutter’s uplifting choral work, "Rejoice and be merry". This radiant and joyful carol masterfully combines the sound of a mixed choir (SATB)...
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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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The upper-voice setting of the popular carol Mary's Lullaby has been orchestrated by the composer for chamber ensemble. This complete set of orchestral material includes the following string parts: 4...
The upper-voice setting of the popular carol Mary's Lullaby has been orchestrated by the composer for chamber ensemble. This complete set of orchestral material includes the following string parts: 4...
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Experience a heartwarming musical Christmas tale with "Brother Heinrich's Christmas", published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This delightful work combines atmospheric choral music with cap...
Experience a heartwarming musical Christmas tale with "Brother Heinrich's Christmas", published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This delightful work combines atmospheric choral music with cap...
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Set of parts for Rutter's arrangement of this popular French carol. This accompaniment is compatible with both the JRAE vocal score and the Joy to the world! collection. This set contains the followin...
Set of parts for Rutter's arrangement of this popular French carol. This accompaniment is compatible with both the JRAE vocal score and the Joy to the world! collection. This set contains the followin...
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This uplifting Christmas carol demonstrates Rutter's gift for writing engaging and memorable tunes. Orchestration: 2fl, ob, 2cl, bsn, 2hn, perc (glock & bell tree), hp, str.
This uplifting Christmas carol demonstrates Rutter's gift for writing engaging and memorable tunes. Orchestration: 2fl, ob, 2cl, bsn, 2hn, perc (glock & bell tree), hp, str.
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This uplifting Christmas carol demonstrates Rutter's gift for writing engaging and memorable tunes. This set contains the following string parts: 4 x vln I, 4 x vln II, 3 x vla, 2 x vc, 1 x db.
This uplifting Christmas carol demonstrates Rutter's gift for writing engaging and memorable tunes. This set contains the following string parts: 4 x vln I, 4 x vln II, 3 x vla, 2 x vc, 1 x db.
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Immerse yourself in the serene magic of the holiday season with John Rutter’s delicate arrangement of the traditional German carol, 'Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming'. In this enchanting setting for oboe...
Immerse yourself in the serene magic of the holiday season with John Rutter’s delicate arrangement of the traditional German carol, 'Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming'. In this enchanting setting for oboe...
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Set of parts for John Rutter's highly original arrangement of the popular Christmas carol. The carol is available both as part of the Joy to the World collection and as an individual choral leaflet; t...
Set of parts for John Rutter's highly original arrangement of the popular Christmas carol. The carol is available both as part of the Joy to the World collection and as an individual choral leaflet; t...
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John Rutters Arrangement des beliebten Spirituels ist lebhaft und fröhlich mit einer Spur Hillbilly- und Bluegrass-Musik. Stimmensatz: Flöte 1, Flöte 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Klarinette 1, Klarinette 2, Fag...
John Rutters Arrangement des beliebten Spirituels ist lebhaft und fröhlich mit einer Spur Hillbilly- und Bluegrass-Musik. Stimmensatz: Flöte 1, Flöte 2, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Klarinette 1, Klarinette 2, Fag...
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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
- 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” .