Augsburg Fortress

Have Mercy on Me

Clayton White composes a gentle and reverent gospel ballad reflecting on an adaptation of Psalm 51. The choir sings the psalm verses with a solo voice responding, “Have mercy, O God.”

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Ash Wednesday; Lent & Holy Week; Psalms

This Night

This re-release of a classic F. Melius Christiansen Christmas anthem is based on the familiar tune used with “Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices” and incorporates a part for children’s choir or soloists, with adult choir.

Voicing: Children's choir; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Christmas

The Road to Resurrection

Roberta Rowland-Raybold takes us on a journey through Lent, Holy Week, and Easter in this collection of organ settings for the Paschal story. Thoughtful and expressive, these settings are useful organ voluntaries for this holy time of the liturgical year.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week

9781506466125

Now We Join in Celebration

A joyful anthem filled with playful, rhythmic grace.

Voicing: Keyboard; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Communion; General

Christ's Blessing

This brief but rich motet asks for Christ's Blessing upon everyone.

Voicing: Organ; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter; General; Ordination

For You Alone, O God, I Wait

Andrew Birling crafted this paraphrase of Psalm 62 using two hymn tunes, DETROIT and BROTHER JAMES' AIR.

Voicing: Piano; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Epiphany; General

9781506447162

Wonder of Wonders

This work by Mark Sedio is appropriate for choirs of all sizes and a welcome addition to any choral library.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General

9781506426280

All Things New: Organ Settings on Hymns Old and New

Robert Powell consistently provides well crafted, useful organ settings. Most of the hymns treated here are of a general nature.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General; Holy Week

9781506413594

Amazing Grace

The beloved hymn "Amazing Grace" is set to the old traditional tune HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN.

Voicing: Piano; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General; Lent & Holy Week

9781506413792

His Voice As the Sound of the Dulcimer Sweet

This Joseph Swain text and American folk hymn tune (SAMANTHRA) are given a tender setting for SATB choir and piano.

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General

9781506413891

Miracle in Mystery

This anthem can serve starting in Advent as a Lessons and Carols response to the Genesis 3 reading, and is equally effective throughout Christmas.

Voicing: 2-part mixed; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas

9781506413945

As Your Spirit in the Desert

With text by Susan Palo Cherwien, "As Your Spirit in the Desert" is perfect for the first Sunday in Lent.

Voicing: Organ; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9781506408514

Bless Now, O God, the Journey

A moving text by Sylvia Dunstan is paired with a traditional Scottish melody and set by Hal Hopson. Very useful even for small choirs.

Voicing: Piano; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General

9781506408545

A New Liturgical Year, volume 2: Anthology for Organ

This anthology gathers some of the best in 20th century organ settings of hymn and chorale tunes arranged in order of the liturgical year.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General

9781451499070

Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

This piece is a lilting setting of a familiar hymn by Fanny Crosby...

Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General; Lent & Holy Week

9781451492521

Cry of the Dove: Piano Settings

Stylistically, this collection is like a breath of fresh air. You are going to love the treatments given to all of the arrangements in this collection. Carol Wahl's interpretations will be a welcome addition to your library.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium

9781451479614

The Fullness of God

This anthem is perfect for choirs large and small. The accessible voice leading allows this piece to be done on limited rehearsal time. As it is a Nancy Raabe arrangement...

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy

9781451462494

Augsburg Motet Book

This beautiful collection of motets spans seven centuries, six countries, and four languages. Each short choral work is either unaccompanied or has instrumental doubling...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781451423709

Jesus Said, Come, Follow Me

This anthem has the simplest of texts, just the title, but that increases its usefulness. Discipleship, confirmation, ordination, time after Epiphany...

Voicing: A cappella
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Confirmation/Affirmation; General; Ordination

9781451420746

Put on Love

Working with a grace-filled text from Colossians, Lee Dengler skillfully clothes it in a setting gently propelled forward in triple meter. Along the way, he works in...

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: General; Wedding

9781451420784