John Rutter Sheet Music for Choir and Instruments
This is a simple and gentle setting of the popular American folk hymn. Beginning softly with the sopranos accompanied by piano/harp in the first verse, Rutter explores a wide variety of textures, buil...
This is a simple and gentle setting of the popular American folk hymn. Beginning softly with the sopranos accompanied by piano/harp in the first verse, Rutter explores a wide variety of textures, buil...
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This is a simple and gentle setting of the popular American folk hymn. Beginning softly with the sopranos accompanied by piano/harp in the first verse, Rutter explores a wide variety of textures, buil...
This is a simple and gentle setting of the popular American folk hymn. Beginning softly with the sopranos accompanied by piano/harp in the first verse, Rutter explores a wide variety of textures, buil...
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For soprano and baritone soloists, children's choir, adult choir, and orchestra or chamber ensemble. The text is that of a standard Latin Missa brevis, to which several relevant English poetic texts h...
For soprano and baritone soloists, children's choir, adult choir, and orchestra or chamber ensemble. The text is that of a standard Latin Missa brevis, to which several relevant English poetic texts h...
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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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Unison (with optional second part) voices with piano or orchestra The beautiful melody, popular words, and flowing accompaniment combine here to memorable effect. Vintage Rutter, and essential reperto...
Unison (with optional second part) voices with piano or orchestra The beautiful melody, popular words, and flowing accompaniment combine here to memorable effect. Vintage Rutter, and essential reperto...
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There are two versions of this anthem - for SATB with organ or strings, or SA with piano The words are from Numbers 6:24.
There are two versions of this anthem - for SATB with organ or strings, or SA with piano The words are from Numbers 6:24.
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for SSA and organ or strings A setting of haunting lyrical simplicity. An SATB version is also available. The accompaniment for strings is available on hire.
for SSA and organ or strings A setting of haunting lyrical simplicity. An SATB version is also available. The accompaniment for strings is available on hire.
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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 classic Rutter anthem, with its characterful orchestral accompaniment, is essential repertoire for any choir.
This classic Rutter anthem, with its characterful orchestral accompaniment, is essential repertoire for any choir.
- Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
- Set of Parts - 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, Bassoon, 2 Horns, Harp, 4 Violins 1, 4 Violins 2 and 2 Cellos
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An easy anthem with words and music by John Rutter. There are four different versions of the vocal parts: unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, SA and Men with piano or SATB...
An easy anthem with words and music by John Rutter. There are four different versions of the vocal parts: unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, SA and Men with piano or SATB...
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This popular movement from John Rutter's Requiem is presented here separately, with the accompaniment arranged for organ.
This popular movement from John Rutter's Requiem is presented here separately, with the accompaniment arranged for organ.
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This popular hymn is here set to the tune 'Hyfrydol' and has a splendid last verse descant.
This popular hymn is here set to the tune 'Hyfrydol' and has a splendid last verse descant.
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In this arrangement of the hymn tune St Clement, traditional verses alternate with those newly arranged by John Rutter. The piece is part of a wider collection of hymn arrangements, which have been re...
In this arrangement of the hymn tune St Clement, traditional verses alternate with those newly arranged by John Rutter. The piece is part of a wider collection of hymn arrangements, which have been re...
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For soprano and tenor soloists and SATB choir, with keyboard or chamber ensemble or orchestra. The nine movements form a single choral work comprising seven pieces previously published separately and...
For soprano and tenor soloists and SATB choir, with keyboard or chamber ensemble or orchestra. The nine movements form a single choral work comprising seven pieces previously published separately and...
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Over 50 of the finest examples of sacred choral music from continental Europe from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. John Rutter has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-centu...
Over 50 of the finest examples of sacred choral music from continental Europe from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. John Rutter has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-centu...
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This short and easy anthem is a statement of the Christian intent, serene in its quiet confidence. Words are from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Also available in John Rutter Anthems. Duration: 3 min...
This short and easy anthem is a statement of the Christian intent, serene in its quiet confidence. Words are from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Also available in John Rutter Anthems. Duration: 3 min...
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For SATB and organ, OR brass OR orchestra. Te Deum is a hymn of praise, appropriate for choral concerts as well as for use in sacred settings. The music is jubilant, straightforward, and appealing; wi...
For SATB and organ, OR brass OR orchestra. Te Deum is a hymn of praise, appropriate for choral concerts as well as for use in sacred settings. The music is jubilant, straightforward, and appealing; wi...
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For SATB accompanied by full orchestra or brass (4 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba), percussion, and organ. This is the first movement of Gloria, here published as a separate choral l...
For SATB accompanied by full orchestra or brass (4 trumpets, 2 tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba), percussion, and organ. This is the first movement of Gloria, here published as a separate choral l...
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Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for mixed choir, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 3 trombones or 2 horns and 1 trombone, tuba), timpani, percussion and organ An alternative orchestral accompaniment...
Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for mixed choir, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 3 trombones or 2 horns and 1 trombone, tuba), timpani, percussion and organ An alternative orchestral accompaniment...
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A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of Rutter's celebrated setting of F. S. Pierpoint's famous hymn. Suitable for pianists at early intermediate level, and clearly presented and laid...
A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of Rutter's celebrated setting of F. S. Pierpoint's famous hymn. Suitable for pianists at early intermediate level, and clearly presented and laid...
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This upper-voice version of John Rutter's enduringly popular Star Carol is compatible with both full and reduced orchestrations, as well as being suitable for performance with piano accompaniment alon...
This upper-voice version of John Rutter's enduringly popular Star Carol is compatible with both full and reduced orchestrations, as well as being suitable for performance with piano accompaniment alon...
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This charming French carol (with E.C. Nunn's English translation) tells of the milkmaids Jeanette and Isabella, who run to tell the shepherds to come and see the baby Jesus in the stable. The 3/8 time...
This charming French carol (with E.C. Nunn's English translation) tells of the milkmaids Jeanette and Isabella, who run to tell the shepherds to come and see the baby Jesus in the stable. The 3/8 time...
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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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John Rutter creates a peaceful and contemplative atmosphere in this new arrangement of the traditional German carol, Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen. The piece opens with a lyrical melody from the solo o...
John Rutter creates a peaceful and contemplative atmosphere in this new arrangement of the traditional German carol, Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen. The piece opens with a lyrical melody from the solo o...
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74 of the most popular items from Carols for Choirs 1, 2 and 3 in one volume, plus 26 pieces new to the series. The volume contains both accompanied and unaccompanied items, and the Order of Service f...
74 of the most popular items from Carols for Choirs 1, 2 and 3 in one volume, plus 26 pieces new to the series. The volume contains both accompanied and unaccompanied items, and the Order of Service f...
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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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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
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- 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” .