Augsburg Fortress

Blessed Are They Who Walk in the Pathways of Peace

In these changing times, here is a work that speaks eloquently of peace and peacemakers. Appropriate for Advent or any occasion when a text advocating peace...

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

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Come and Find the Quiet Center

Anne Krentz Organ has crafted a quiet, serene, prayerful setting of this lovely new text by Shirley Erena Murray. The text, a perfect antidote for a changing world...

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

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Light on Your Feet, Volume 2

Another collection of accessible organ music, with easy pedals, arranged for ease of use by church musicians, this collection contains "gems" by Scarlatti,...

Voicing: Organ

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My God Is an Awesome God

A new name to the Augsburg catalog, Keith Hampton blends his original melody and text with traditional gospel harmonies and a rollicking piano part. Ideal for...

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

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Amazing Grace: Four for Piano

From the master of hymn improvisation at the organ comes this fresh and innovative collection for solo piano. Tunes include:  NEW BRITAIN, THOMPSON, BALM IN GILEAD, and VRUECHTEN.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Ash Wednesday; Easter; Lent & Holy Week

Paschal Suite for Organ and Trumpet

Stunning prelude, voluntary, and postlude for Easter! This suite incorporates four Easter tunes (Easter Hymn, Victory, and Gelobt sei Gott) into a...

Voicing: Organ
Use: Easter

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Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness

The master of jazz harmonies has set the James K. Manley text and tune in a lush and sensitive setting again incorporating imaginative and stylistically...

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780800657116

Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ: Hymn Preludes for Organ

A generous collection of lively hymn preludes on tunes including: BERGLUND, GABRIEL'S MESSAGE, GRACE CHURCH GANANOQUE, HAF TRONES LAMPA FÄRDIG, HYFRYDOL, LAND OF REST, and more.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Advent/Christmas; Communion; Epiphany; Thanksgiving

Gloria Deo: Book 1

Easy anthems for soprano, alto, and baritone

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Pentecost

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Lullaby on Christmas Eve

Vocal lines with soaring leaps highlight this plaintive advent text. A standard in choral music for the season.

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Christmas

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Alleluia! Christ is Born!

Rhythmic and catchy, set toes tapping with this joyful arrangement that evokes a Medieval carol. Brass adds antiphonal fanfare.

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

Creating God, Your Fingers Trace

A beautiful setting of this tune from Southern Harmony sits easily in the voice for a choir of any age. Scored for 2-part treble voices, the arrangement...

Voicing: 2-part mixed; Children's choir; Handbells; Organ
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General

Around You, O Lord Jesus

This anthem's Danish tune comes alive with merry and joyful style. Scored for SAB choir with soprano divisi, add bells for a truly delightful and appealing...

Voicing: Handbells; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium; Medium-Difficult
Use: Communion; General

Long Fare You Well

Undine Smith Moore’s arrangement of the lesser-known spiritual “Long Fare You Well” builds on the expressive melody and concludes in a glorious final stanza. 

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General

Word of God, Come Down on Earth

With imaginative text painting, Thomas Keesecker’s anthem on this familiar chorale brings the text and tune to life.

A Virgin Most Blessed

Ryan Kelly writes an uplifting Renaissance-style Christmas anthem with dancelike rhythms, open fifths, and accompaniment for woodwinds and percussion.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas

Each Road

A stirring poem about the end of hatred and the epiphany of love by Jeannette M. Lindholm leads to a moving anthem by David C. Pike, rich with choral text painting.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: General

All Praise to Thee

A lovely, lyrical anthem setting of a Christmas hymn text by Martin Luther.

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

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

Savior of the Nations, Come: Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord

Choirs of all sizes can be successful with this anthem which pairs one of two texts with a familiar advent hymn.

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