John Rutter Sheet Music for Choir and Instruments
For unison voices and piano. A shortened version of the original with a simplified piano accompaniment.
For unison voices and piano. A shortened version of the original with a simplified piano accompaniment.
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A version for unison voices with a simplified piano accompaniment Also in Carols for Choirs 4.
A version for unison voices with a simplified piano accompaniment Also in Carols for Choirs 4.
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einstimmiger Chor und Klavier; Blockflöten, Glockenspiel ad lib.
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For unison voices with a simplified piano accompaniment Duration: 3 minutes Difficulty: Easy
For unison voices with a simplified piano accompaniment Duration: 3 minutes Difficulty: Easy
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For Mixed Choir (SATB) and Small Orchestra (or Instrumental Combo) Enthält Stimmen 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, bn, 2 hn, 2 perc (claves, marca, glock), hp, str (je 1x)
For Mixed Choir (SATB) and Small Orchestra (or Instrumental Combo) Enthält Stimmen 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, bn, 2 hn, 2 perc (claves, marca, glock), hp, str (je 1x)
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The volumes of Carols for Choirs have established themselves as the quintessential carol books for carol-singers around the world. Each volume presents a wide range of carols to suit every occasion, f...
The volumes of Carols for Choirs have established themselves as the quintessential carol books for carol-singers around the world. Each volume presents a wide range of carols to suit every occasion, f...
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One for the star in the sky over Bethlehem For unison voices (with optional second part) and piano. Words and music by John Rutter. Duration: 3 minutes Difficulty: Very easy to Easy
One for the star in the sky over Bethlehem For unison voices (with optional second part) and piano. Words and music by John Rutter. Duration: 3 minutes Difficulty: Very easy to Easy
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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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Diese Ausgabe des beliebten 'Shepherd's Pipe Carol' über einen flötenden Hirtenjungen auf dem Weg nach Bethlehem von John Rutter enthält viele Hintergrundinformationen und hilfreiche Aufführungstipps...
Diese Ausgabe des beliebten 'Shepherd's Pipe Carol' über einen flötenden Hirtenjungen auf dem Weg nach Bethlehem von John Rutter enthält viele Hintergrundinformationen und hilfreiche Aufführungstipps...
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This much-loved carol, with words by the composer, celebrating the piping of a shepherd boy on his way to Bethlehem, is presented here with informative background information and helpful performance h...
This much-loved carol, with words by the composer, celebrating the piping of a shepherd boy on his way to Bethlehem, is presented here with informative background information and helpful performance h...
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This collection presents fifteen of the best-loved sacred carols and Christmas hymns, which can be sung as a set (to form a complete Christmas service or concert), separately, or with certain pieces t...
This collection presents fifteen of the best-loved sacred carols and Christmas hymns, which can be sung as a set (to form a complete Christmas service or concert), separately, or with certain pieces t...
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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 a separate arrangement in 6/8 time, with its own or...
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 a separate arrangement in 6/8 time, with its own or...
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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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John Rutter (b.1945) is one of England's best known composers of choral literature. While his choral works, including 'Te Deum,' 'Magnificat,' and 'Requiem,' are the most familiar, he has also written...
John Rutter (b.1945) is one of England's best known composers of choral literature. While his choral works, including 'Te Deum,' 'Magnificat,' and 'Requiem,' are the most familiar, he has also written...
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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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'The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album' brings together eight of the composer's best-loved seasonal choral pieces as piano transcriptions, made by John Rutter himself, for performance use or enjoyment...
'The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album' brings together eight of the composer's best-loved seasonal choral pieces as piano transcriptions, made by John Rutter himself, for performance use or enjoyment...
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The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album brings together eight of the composer's best-loved seasonal choral pieces as piano transcriptions, made by John Rutter himself, for performance use or enjoyment a...
The John Rutter Christmas Piano Album brings together eight of the composer's best-loved seasonal choral pieces as piano transcriptions, made by John Rutter himself, for performance use or enjoyment a...
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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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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...
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An arrangement for upper voices, with a simplified piano part, of John Rutter's popular Jesus Child, an upbeat carol with a clear Caribbean influence.
An arrangement for upper voices, with a simplified piano part, of John Rutter's popular Jesus Child, an upbeat carol with a clear Caribbean influence.
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An arrangement for upper voices, with a simplified piano part, of John Rutter's popular Jesus Child, an upbeat carol with a clear Caribbean influence.
An arrangement for upper voices, with a simplified piano part, of John Rutter's popular Jesus Child, an upbeat carol with a clear Caribbean influence.
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- Kenneth Pont
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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
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- 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
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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” .