Other music sources

Let's face it: sometimes carillon music is hard to come by. While the GCNA Music Store is one of the largest sources of sheet music for carillon in the world, it doesn't have everything you may want to play... yet. As a service to our members and the broader carillon community, we've compiled this list of carillon music for sale or free download from other organizations. Happy hunting!

• Carillon societies and sheet music retailers
• Sheet Music Plus
• Miscellaneous
• Listings and bibliographies

Carillon societies and sheet music retailers

American Carillon Music Editions (ACME)

With over 600 titles for sale, American Carillon Music Editions is a major publisher of North American carillon music.

Edition Peters

Edition Peters sells carillon scores from several non-carillonneur composers, including William Albright, John Cage, George Crumb, Alan Hovhaness, Mauricio Kagel, Flor Peeters, Daniel Pinkham, and Charles Wuorinen.

Carillon Society of Britain and Ireland (CSBI)

The Carillon Society of Britain and Ireland sells many scores for 2- and 3-octave carillons.

Beiaardcentrum Nederland (BCN; The Netherlands Carillon Centre)

Beiaardcentrum Nederland is a major retailer of carillon sheet music, recordings, and books from the Dutch and Belgian carillon societies and organizations. They also have a set of free downloads.

Donemus

Donemus is a Dutch institute that documents contemporary music composed in the Netherlands. They also sell some of the scores, and we have a direct link to all available music for carillon.

Edition Pors

Edition Pors is a Dutch music retailer of organ and carillon music, including music formerly published by Leen 't Hart.

Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn"

The Royal Carillon School "Jef Denyn" (Beiaardschool Mechelen) published their 100th Musical Anniversary Book for free and is available as of December 2024. Email beiaardschool@mechelen.be to inquire about other scores.

Royal Dutch Carillon Association (KNKV)

Email the Royal Dutch Carillon Association (Koninklijke Nederlandse Klokkenspel-Vereniging) at secretaris@klokkenspel.org to inquire about available scores for purchase or free download. Available for free download as of December 2024 is Transplant Ballad.

Singing Winds Music Company

The Singing Winds Music Company is a carillon music retailer run by Richard Giszczak. Most titles are sold on Sheet Music Plus. About 100 titles cannot be sold on Sheet Music Plus, and are instead sold directly through the company. Public domain arrangements may also be purchased directly from the company at lower prices than listed on Sheet Music Plus. Email richg@umich.edu for more information.

Sheet Music Plus

Sheet Music Plus is an online sheet music retailer owned by Hal Leonard. Through its publishing platform ArrangeMe, you can legally self-publish arrangements of music that have not yet entered the public domain. (You can also self-publish arrangements of public domain music as well as your original compositions.) After self-publishing via ArrangeMe, your works are automatically made available on Sheet Music Plus and the other retailers Sheet Music Direct.

The GCNA has published several arrangements on Sheet Music Plus. Many individuals have also published arrangements (and if you want to be added to this list, email web@gcna.org):

When publishing your music, be sure to label the instrument as "carillon"! This was not possible in the past, so older arrangements may have a different instrument listed or have the phrase "for carillon" in the title. Exercise caution: some scores listed as being for "carillon" may not be intended for carillon as defined by the GCNA.

Support the GCNA when using Sheet Music Plus!

• Visit the site using our affiliate link or the search box below to look for sheet music (for carillon or another instrument) and they will donate 8% of the proceeds from your orders to the GCNA.
• If you are a college student, music teacher, or choir director, you can sign up for a free Easy Rebates account to earn 8% cash back on all orders, and the GCNA will earn a US$5 referral bonus if you place an order within 60 days.

Miscellaneous

Carillon Music from Mayo Clinic

Has music for free download from the Center for Humanities in Music, including from the Music for Mayo Carillon Music Series, from the results of a 2021 composition contest, and other downloads.

Peace Tower Carillon

Has music for free download from the Dominion Carillon Library. For scholarly and performance purposes.

Network of War Memorial and Peace Carillons

Has a booklet for free download to commemorate the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the United Nations.

Fruhauf Music Publications

Has music for free download on their website.

Matthias Vanden Gheyn 300, by Campanae Lovanienses

Has several booklets and scores for free download to celebrate the 300th birthday of Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721–1785). Includes facsimilie editions and expansions (e.g. duet expansions, size reductions) of Vanden Gheyn's music as well as the results of composition and arrangement contests.

University of Florida

Has compiled a list of carillon music with a university connection.

Sewanee: The University of the South

Has music for free download. (This is an archived version of a deleted set of pages and may not function properly.)

Score Exchange

Score Exchange is an online sheet music retailer. Both Jeff Davis and Gordon Slater have published carillon music on the platform.

American Composers Alliance

The American Composers Alliance catalogs the carillon music of Johan Franco and others.

Crescendo Music

Sells a book collection of the Matthias Vanden Gheyn facsimiles (originally published by Alamire Muziekuitgeverij).

Friends of the Albany City Carillon

Has music for sale on their website.

Jessica Wells

Has music for sale on her website. (Search for 'carillion' if nothing comes up for 'carillon'.)

Connor Chee (Wild Saguaro Records)

Has music for sale on his publisher Wild Saguaro Records.

Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra (CHI Press)

Has music for sale on her publisher CHI Press.

Hilary Tann (Oxford University Press)

Has First Watch for sale on her publisher Oxford University Press.

Matthew Tran-Adams (Canadian Music Centre)

Has "Lunar New Year Fantasy" and "You Cannot Bury a River" for sale at the Canadian Music Centre.

Alice Gomez

Has music for sale on her website.

Peter Bray

Has music for free download on his website.

Alex Johnson

Has music for free download on his website.

Simone Browne

Has music for free download on her website.

Naoko Tsujita

Has music for sale on her website.

Joey Brink

Has music for sale on his website. Also has an arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" for free download.

Mathieu Daniël Polak

Has music for free download on his website.

Charles Semowich

Sells 3 books of carillon music on Amazon. Search "Charles Semowich carillon music" in the Books department.

In Memoriam – September 11, 2001 by John Courter

John Courter's memorial composition dedicated to the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks are posted here at his request for all to use without charge: the original version in C minor, an alternate version in D minor for carillons in meantone temperament, and a 2-octave version arranged by Andreas Friedrich with Courter's approval.

Listings and bibliographies

World Carillon Federation

The federation has compiled a world list of sheet music for carillon available from a number of different publishers. Some titles are available for free download – look for the titles with the PDF icon.

International Bibliography of Carillon Music by Women, Transgender, and Nonbinary Composers

This bibliography by Tiffany Ng and Emmet Lewis is a continually updated resource. The introduction to this bibliography was published in volume 70 of the GCNA Bulletin.

Annotated Bibliography of African American Carillon Music

This bibliography by Tiffany Ng is a continually updated resource. It was was originally published in volume 68 of the GCNA Bulletin.

Hymn Tune Databases

These databases maintained by John Widmann comprise hymn tunes that exist in published carillon music, along with suggested hymn tunes for each Sunday of the three liturgical years in the Revised Common Lectionary.