The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) and the Church Music Society (CMS) are delighted to announce an important new partnership that will see the RSCM become the exclusive publisher for all the Church Music Society’s titles.

Founded in 1906, the Church Music Society is a charity promoting the use of church music of the highest quality for the diverse needs of the Christian Church, particularly through publishing works which are not otherwise available. Starting with early favourites, such as the Hugh Allen/Robert Bridges arrangement of Bach’s ‘Jesu, joy of man’s desiring’, the Society’s catalogue now includes numerous classics. Church musicians will be familiar with the standard collection of ‘Tudor’ Responses (edited by Watkins Shaw), Howells’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B minor and Mass in the Dorian Mode, and Leighton’s Communion Service in D and Second Service. The catalogue also contains a rich variety of music from the Renaissance (both in Latin and English), the Baroque (including Blow, Purcell, Greene and Boyce), the 19th century (including Walmisley, S. and S.S. Wesley, Parry, Wood and Walford Davies), and more recent works by Philip Moore, Francis Jackson, Jonathan Harvey and Judith Bingham.

Recent issues have included Sarum responds by Taverner, Tallis and Sheppard (edited by Sally Dunkley), motets by Pearsall, carol arrangements by Martindale Sidwell, and new compositions by Christopher Ouvry-Johns, Paul Trepte and Rupert Jeffcoat.

The Society’s Chairman, Professor Patrick Russill KSG says: ‘The partnership with the RSCM is the start of an exciting new chapter in the Church Music Society’s history and mission, enabling the Society to draw on the RSCM’s unrivalled expertise in church music publishing. The RSCM’s online shop will ensure that all the Society’s publications are immediately available. The partnership will also allow both organisations to coordinate their complementary publishing policies, while maintaining their editorial independence and particular characteristics, to the benefit of church music globally.’

RSCM Director, Hugh Morris, writes: ‘We are delighted to be working with the Church Music Society in this new partnership, as we take on the publishing of CMS materials. The CMS has a distinguished history, and we are pleased to be able to make its important catalogue available as widely as possible alongside RSCM Publications. We look forward to complementing one another’s work to produce new resources in the years ahead.’

The new arrangements will take effect from 2nd March 2026. View the complete catalogue in the RSCM Music Shop www.rscmshop.com