Augsburg Fortress

Holden Evening Prayer

Originally written for Holden Village, this anniversary edition adds three psalms for Advent and Lent. Includes piano score, guitar chords, and worship leader material.

Use: Advent; Evening; Lent & Holy Week

Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Accompaniment Edition: Liturgies

Complete keyboard accompaniments for all ten Holy Communion settings, plus accompaniments for the additional services found in Evangelical Lutheran Worship.

9780806656212

Living in Wonder: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Volume 4

This fourth collection of hymn texts by Susan Palo Cherwien offers twenty-one hymns intended to be sung by worshiping assemblies, as well as comprehensive indexes to her entire body of hymnody.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; All Saints; Baptism; Christ the King; Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; General; Lent & Holy Week; Pentecost; Season after Pentecost; Time after Epiphany; Transfiguration; Trinity

9781506499475

Singing Our Prayer: Companion to Holden Prayer Around the Cross

This collection of short songs, refrains and chants has been developed to support service of Prayer Around the Cross, a collection of evening services that include scripture readings, prayers, silence...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Evening

Before the Marvel of This Night

Published in 1982, this setting of Jaroslav Vajda's wonderful text has become our best-selling seasonal anthem. Also available: instrumental parts by Carl...

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

Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Psalter for Worship, Year C

Includes the psalm texts, refrains, psalm tones, and keyboard accompaniments from Evangelical Lutheran Worship for Year C.

Spirit and Song: Ten Piano Settings for Worship

This elegant and rich collection from Marianne Kim features hymns from All Creation Sings and provides a wonderful path for introducing new hymnody to your congregation. 

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General

Gladsome Tidings: Organ Settings for Christmas

Aaron Shows provides vibrant and colorful music in this Christmas collection for organ. Included are settings of “Patapan,” “Masters in This Hall,” and “Ding Dong, Merrily on High,” along with several other familiar carols. Sure to be a joyful and welcomed addition to holiday services, concerts, and festivals. 

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Christmas

Come, Beloved of the Maker: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Vol. 2

From the writer of hymn texts such as "O Blessed Spring" and "Rise, O Church, like Christ Arisen" comes this second collection of expressive texts for worship....

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806698090

Christ Has Arisen, Alleluia

A joy to sing, this uplifting choral setting of the popular Tanzanian Easter hymn features light, buoyant choral writing in the character of a madrigal. An exciting addition to Easter worship.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Easter

That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright

The perfect addition to Easter Sunday, this uplifting Easter hymn set by Benjamin Harlan for SATB choir is easily learned and can be accompanied effectively by organ or piano.

Voicing: SATB, Kybd
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd

Nancy Raabe writes a new tune for this hymn text found in All Creation Sings and offers a gentler interpretation than other settings, allowing the poetry of Sylvia Dunstan to sing with new expression.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter; Psalms

Peace, Be Still: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Volume 3

In this third collection of hymn texts from the pen of Susan Palo Cherwien, we are offered thirty elegant poems intended to be sung by a worshiping assembly.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781506422220

We Will Be Merry, Far and Wide

Charming and delightful, this SAB Easter anthem has the buoyant feel of a renaissance madrigal. Written in strophic form with refrain, this anthem encourages versatility in use including the option to add the assembly on the refrain.

Voicing: SAB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

The Son of Mary

A captivating new melody by Andrew Parr is paired with the beloved Christmas poem “What Child Is This,” creating a fresh and welcome setting of a beloved text. 

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; Christmas

Gathered and Sent: Pairs of Preludes and Postludes for Organ

In this collection, six hymn tunes are each set with a prelude and a postlude in varying styles by skilled organist Brenda Portman. Pairings include Meditation and Toccata, Impromptu and Voluntary, and Chorale Prelude and Gigue.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: General

Little Suite

Three pieces for organ solo by celebrated American composer Emma Lou Diemer.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter; General

ITEM014103

Come and Praise, Volume 4

With great variety and creative sparkle, Mark Sedio’s fourth volume in the “Come and Praise” series offers several short pieces to use with hymn singing, along with three extended hymn tune variations. Also included is his delightful original piece Scherzo Piccolo.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General

Beneath the Cross of Jesus

This classic Lenten text is set to a Cornish folk tune by Evelyn R. Larter in an easy-medium SATB anthem with piano and C-instrument accompaniment. The lyrical folk tune is paired with poignant harmonic writing giving new expression and depth to the poetry. 

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Lent & Holy Week

Come, Let Us Eat

A quintessential communion anthem! Anthony Giamanco sets this well-loved hymn in an accessible arrangement for SAB choir with a gentle jazz-inflected piano accompaniment.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Communion; General