Advanced Sacred & Church Music Sheet Music

Three demanding motets, based on classical sacred texts.Two Ave Maria motets and the Ave verum corpus can be performed both in liturgies and concerts.

Antonín Dvorák's impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, choir and orchestra is probably the best known of the composer's sacred works. Dvorák's own painful experiences - his first daughter died in 18...

George Frideric Handel is regarded as the first and most important English representative of the oratorio genre. The Messiah in particular is regarded as the epitome of sacred music and is also one of...

Chorpartitur zur Blasorchesterausgabe Nach mehreren großen Werken für Blasorchester und Singstimme (Cantate aux Étoiles, A travers le Temps, Missa Tornacum undMagnificat) schrieb André Waignein diese...

Written to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, this short choral work is suitable for professional, amateur and church choruses. The use of biblical texts (Isaiah) gives this piece a...

'Broken Psalm' was commissioned by Cambridge University to celebrate their 800th anniversary and first performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College in 2009. Goehr, who was Professor of music at...

Motetus II ist - wie Motetus I (SKR 20028) - ein räumlich konzipiertes Stück für zwei Chorgruppen. Im Gegensatz zum hymnischen Motetus I ist Motetus II jedoch ein Klagegesang, in den das 'De profundis...

After several attempts, Heinz Holliger finally managed to successfully set to music David Rokeah's poems which are dedicated to him. Shir Shavur is like a choir book with twelve very different movemen...

The text of this 'small sound piece' combines material from Petrarch's well-known Sonnet No. 132 and its Baroque adaptation by Martin Opitz, alternating between - and sometimes mixing - Italian and Ge...

The rushing of the Holy Spirit to which the hymn 'Veni creator' refers is symbolized by fast semiquaver runs of the organ which return again and again during the whole piece. Alternately, the text is...

Vashe Sharafyan’s *Offertorium* is a work of profound spirituality and introspection, in which the music becomes a space for meditation, self-reflection, and inner transformation. In keeping with the...

Vashe Sharafyan’s *Offertorium* is a work of profound spirituality and introspection, in which the music becomes a space for meditation, self-reflection, and inner transformation. In keeping with the...

Antonio Vivaldi’s monumental setting of Psalm 110, the “Dixit Dominus” RV 594, stands as one of the most magnificent highlights of Venetian Baroque music. Conceived for splendid polychoral forces, the...

Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias (Elijah) was composed at a time when large choral societies were formed and music festivals involving hundreds of singers were all the fashion. 271 singers and 125 orchest...

Schubert's Mass in E flat major is the last of his six settings of the Ordinarium Missae and at the same time his most important work of this genre. The Mass is full of varied drama and confessional e...

Traditional hymns are often performed alongside contemporary praise and worship songs in many of today's church services, giving rise to the term 'blended worship.' This distinctive collection provide...

Contemporary Christian Hits contains ten arrangements of inspirational worship favorites by top Christian artists. These arrangements can be used effectively during religious services or in a concert...

The Chorales are taken from my opera, The Intelligence Park.© Gerald Barry

Das Originalwerk zu dieser Bearbeitung ist die Ciaccona für Streichorchester aus dem Jahre 2005, die aus Anlass des Todes Papst Johannes Paul II. entstand. Als instrumentales Zwischenspiel hat sie der...