Augsburg Fortress

Vocal Descants for the Church Year

More than 250 descants and counter-melodies for Evangelical Lutheran Worship hymn tunes. Text included for most hymns! Thirty festive settings—original keyboard setting and descant.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780800679439

Music Sourcebook: All Saints through Transfiguration

This second Music Sourcebook greatly expands the repertoire of resources for the song of the assembly and its leaders from All Saints through Transfiguration including the Advent and Christmas seasons.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781451424263

Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth

This well-loved hymn, featuring a text based on writings from Julian of Norwich and the tune NORWICH by Carolyn Jennings, is set for SAB choir with organ by Kenneth Lowenberg.

Voicing: SAB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Communion; Creation

Endless Song: Accessible Piano Settings

This new volume from Jerry van der Pol offers seventeen accessible settings for piano that can be used throughout the year.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General

9781506426433

I Believe This Is Jesus

A spirited arrangement of a traditional spiritual with infectious vocal lines. The text is both a proclaimation of faith and an invitation for all to come and...

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

Comfort, Comfort

John Ferguson takes the popular "Freu dich sehr" tune and sets it within a light, dance-like ritornel. It works equally well with keyboard or Orff instruments...

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

Christ Is King, Organ Hymn Preludes

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas; Fall; General

9781451486032

Augsburg Organ Library: Baptism and Holy Communion

Augsburg Organ Library: Baptism and Holy Communion, contains 39 pieces for worship or recitals based on Baptism and Holy Communion hymn tunes.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Baptism; Communion

9780800623555

Show Me Thy Ways

A beautiful Advent original by Walter Pelz. This anthem was originally written for guitar and oboe, but flute also works.

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

ChildrenSing the Classics

A Collection of eleven anthems from classical composers, arranged for young singers or smaller adult choirs, in a creative and economical format.

Voicing: Children's choir; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General

9781506447629

Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers

An energetic and exciting setting of this delightful Swedish hymn tune. Written for SAB choir, this accessible work by John Ferguson will enrich Advent worship.

Voicing: SAB, Org
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent

Canticle of the Turning: My Soul Cries Out with a Joyful Shout

A children's or youth choir could sing the first verse of this flexible arrangement, with an adult choir joining on the refrain and leading subsequent verses.

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

He Comes to Us as One Unknown

John Ferguson’s warm and elegant setting of a Timothy Dudley-Smith text, set to the tune REPTON.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas; Creation

Nunc Dimittis

The first piece in the new St. Olaf Choral Series, Nunc Dimittis, premiered at the renowned St. Olaf College Christmas Festival in 1994. This lush work, of...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Epiphany

Music For the Eucharist

Complete collection of service music settings for Holy Communion scored for unison voices and organ. 

Voicing: U, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Communion; General

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Thou Shalt Know Him

This piece by Canadian composer Mark Sirett is exquisite in every way, from its rich harmonic writing to its poignant text.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent

Piano Sunday Morning

Whimsical and innately rhythmic, this collection dances through tunes both old and new with style and grace. Tunes: Assurance, Austria, Azmon, Dove of Peace,...

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; All Saints; Easter; Epiphany; General

9780800663841

Stay With Us

A hopeful and lyrical choral work by Norwegian composer Egil Hovland, excerpted from his opera Captive and Free.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General

Grace & Peace, Volume 8: Songs of Lament and Longing

This volume invites worshipers and performers to engage their imaginations in the walk from lament to hope in the company of the texts and tunes of some of our most beloved hymns.

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

9781506413679

A New Magnificat

A lyric dialog between the songs of Hannah and Mary by Carolyn Jennings, this piece can be performed with soloist or solo sections.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent