Publications
The Salvation Army’s Music Editorial team oversees the publication of around 80 titles through the band and vocal journals.
We are blessed to have so many gifted and dedicated composers and arrangers within our movement who contribute freely to our publications.
Historically, The Salvation Army has been recognised as one of the leading publishers of Christian music for many years. We focus on our traditional brass band and vocal music to reflect the demands of The Salvation Army.
Our music publications by The Salvation Army Trading Company are of an extremely high quality and cater for a wide range of abilities.
To order a publication, contact SP&S Ltd by (W)sps-shop.com (T)+44 (0) 1933 445 445 (E)mail order sp-s.co.uk
Submissions
Any submissions to be considered for our journals should be addressed to:
Assistant Territorial Music Director Andrew Blyth and sent to the Music Ministries Unit at THQ. You can also email us pieces in Sibelius format or pdfs to andrew.blyth@salvationarmy.org.uk
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Brass
First Things First
Occasional publication for beginner bands with alternative pitch parts for wind and string players and a demo CD. New teaching manual as part of this series and another volume of pieces for beginner bands coming soon.
Unity Series
Three issues per year of brass band music for smaller ensembles (minimum 5 parts), available with alternate pitch parts for additional wind and string players and a demonstration CD.
General Series
Three issues a year of brass band music for larger ensembles; full brass band scoring.
Judd Street Collection
Advanced music for brass band, published as single works with full brass scoring. As well as new works, this series also includes items from the old Festival Series Band Journal that have been re-set and released as single items.
Scripture-based song accompaniments
An annual publication containing twelve contemporary arrangements of popular tunes for use as congregational accompaniments. Scored for Triumph Series.
Triumph Series
Three issues per year of brass band music for mid-sized ensembles (13 parts).
Vocal
Sing to the Lord (mixed voice series)
Songs for SATB choir with demonstration/accompaniment CD. Three issues per year.
Sing to the Lord (children’s voice series)
Songs for children’s choir with demonstration/accompaniment CD. One issue per year.
Concert Band
Tradewinds
The increasing popularity of Salvation Army repertoire in the wider musical world has been an exciting development. The Tradewinds brand offers an ever-growing selection of Salvation Army band music that has been faithfully transcribed for concert band. Six titles per year.
Miscellaneous
Supplementing our mainstream publications programme are albums of instrumental and vocal solos as well as individual piano accompaniments for instrumental solos that have previously been published with band accompaniment. These have proved popular both within The Salvation Army and beyond, including items from this repertoire in various grade and diploma exam syllabi.
Occasional releases of various items such as the 'SA Classics for Small Bands' and 'World Class Marches' are released as they become available.