![]() The first release group of Jubilate Music publications contained an inaugural composition from Allen Pote appropriately titled “Jubilate Deo.” The first Jubilate Music publications were released in May, 2010 through summer reading sessions and its first national promotion, introducing Jubilate as “A New Voice in Sacred Music.” Accordingly, he founded Jubilate Music as an imprint of Word Music. Early in his time at Word, Mark saw the benefits for Word to reach out to the traditional, mainline church in addition to its offerings for the contemporary church. Jubilate Music was founded in 2009 by music publisher/producer/writer Mark Cabaniss during his tenure as head of Word Music. Those “graded” publications are still alive in the catalog today. This was a rather novel approach within the mainline church publishing industry. The result was a catalog that served the comprehensive music ministry, with four levels of octavos for choirs “from the cradle to the grave” (and five levels of handbell publications). Its first publications were modeled after Alfred Music’s highly successful “educational series” approach to its piano publications. The 1990’s were a great period of expansion in church music publishing and Alfred Sacred rode the wave of that increase. Writers in the catalog’s early years included Don Besig and Nancy Price, Eugene Butler, John Carter and Mary Kay Beall, William Cutter, Benjamin Harlan, Jerry Weseley Harris, Mark Hayes, Hal Hopson, Steve Kupferschmid, David Lantz, Michael Larkin, Robert Lau, John Leavitt, Patrick Liebergen, Joseph Martin, Anna Laura Page, Dave and Jean Perry, Ruth Elaine Schram, Carl Strommen, Douglas Wagner, and many more. ![]() Veteran composer/arranger Anna Laura Page soon joined the team as the first editor of the Alfred Handbell catalog. Several months later, he asked well-known editor/writer Jean Anne Shafferman to create Alfred’s first church choral catalog. Albrecht and Jay Althouse to re-imagine the Alfred school choral catalog. He first hired well-known school editors/writers Sally K. ![]() When considered retrospectively, the changes and developments that came together to ultimately create Jubilate Music Group make its birth true to the meaning of its name: "a song of joy and triumph."Īlfred Sacred was founded in 1989 when Morton Manus (late President of Alfred Music) decided to expand the Alfred School Choral Catalog. This catalog breadth and depth enables JMG to serve a wide variety of today's churches and schools. From Handel, Hopson, and Hayes to Puccini, Penderecki, and Purifoy…Jubilate Music Group contains a combined 150+ years of treasured music and music publishing history. Schmitt Music catalogs plus the entire Brodt Music and Good Life Publications catalogs. As a result of the consolidation and acquisitions described below, Jubilate Music Group also contains the sacred (and various secular) compositions from the historic Warner Bros. The resulting total is Jubilate Music Group, an eclectic stylistic blend of sacred and secular choral, vocal, handbell, piano, organ, and instrumental publications for adults and children. These developments led to the consolidation of three separate and distinct music publishing catalogs, each with its own individual history: Alfred Sacred, Jubilate Music, and H.W. Jubilate Music Group is the culmination of many years of various providential developments in the lives of several individuals and the music print industry.
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