Augsburg Fortress

I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

This wonderful setting of the traditional spiritual is one that children will love to sing! The text is accessible to children and adults alike, and the soaring...

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

9780800678418

O Lord, throughout These Forty Days

Composer Walter Pelz has set this standard Lenten text to a wonderful new tune, "Forty Days". A lovely experience of new, yet familiar, combined with a...

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9780800637538

Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain

A wonderful festive setting by John Ferguson of the familiar Easter text "Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain" for SATB and Organ. One of the many positive...

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Easter

9780800677961

The Strife Is O'er

John Ferguson knows how to sculpt a masterpiece. He is creative and imaginative, practical and accessible. In "The Strife Is O'er" he envelopes a common Easter...

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Easter

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

Ride On, King Jesus: Palm Sunday Medley

Three hymns and spirituals appropriate for Palm Sunday are combined in this medley that features a lively piano accompaniment and many options for ensemble performance.

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

ChildrenSing at Christmas: Nine Unison and 2-Part Anthems for Advent and Christmas

Includes nine songs that can be sung individually during Advent and Christmas or paired with scripture to create a service of lessons and carols for treble voices.

Voicing: Children's choir
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas

9781451499025

Our Father, We Have Wandered

This setting of Kevin Nichols's beautiful confessional text features a haunting new tune in an accessible setting for choir, piano, and optional assembly...

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

9781451492576

Follow Me

This is a lilting and motivic anthem that tells the story of the calling of the disciples to be "Fishers of Men." Charming and accessible, any choir of treble voices will love this delightful piece.

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

9780800664046

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

The text of the Beatitudes is interspersed with "Donna Nobis Pacem" in a setting rich in harmony and texture. With great attention to text, Anne Krentz Organ...

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

9780800664343

Now Thank We All Our God

The composer writes that he firmly believes that the small church choir, often with few male singers, still has the right to be challenged with interesting...

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Autumn; General; Thanksgiving

Deep Were His Wounds

Designed for use on Good Friday, this work uses a William Johnson text. Sateren is the Director Emeritis of the Augsburg College Choir. This anthem can also be...

Use: Lent & Holy Week

9786000175627

Abide with Me

Lush, elegant, touched with jazz harmonies, this setting would be a wonderful addition to worship or for concert use.

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

9780800674700

Kyrie eleison

A lovely SAB setting of the Kyrie by Eric Unruh with a lyrical soprano and alto duet at the center.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Ash Wednesday; General; Lent & Holy Week

9780800657086

This Host in Shining Robes

John Helgen has masterfully set a poem by Gracia Grindal that reflects on the saints who have gone before us and continue to surround us in spirit. An ideal addition to All Saints worship or a church anniversary.

Voicing: SATB, Kybd
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: All Saints; Praise & Thanksgiving

God Alone Be Praised: Ad Lucem

A lyrical and accessible hymn anthem useful for Reformation Day, Christ the King or other church celebrations. This is one of two tunes commissioned by ALCM for its 30th anniversary and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Voicing: Piano; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Christ the King; Reformation

9781506447209

An Hour of Hallowed Peace

Tender and hopeful, this piece works well for Holy Week services, All Saints, funerals and memorial services, and more.

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: All Saints; General; Lent & Holy Week; Ordinary Time

9781506413808

O Christ, Surround Me

This contemporary hymn in the tradition of Irish Lorica prayer is given a new arrangement by David Sims for choir and piano that is lyrical and gentle.

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

9781506422107

From Generation to Generation

Tom Trenney creatively adapts the Isaac Watts text “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” and pairs it with exciting original music that incorporates fragments of the tune ST. ANNE.

Behold a Host, Arrayed in White

This three-part setting provides a fresh, inviting take on this treasured hymn text, and is an excellent option for the choir with limited rehearsal time. This...

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: All Saints; Christ the King

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