Augsburg Fortress

Star in the East

This quick-learn SATB setting of a familiar Appalachian carol (creatively re-organizing the Reginald Heber text) is especially useful for the short, early-January turnaround between Christmas and Epiphany.

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

9781451485974

Heart and Voice to Heaven Raise: Full Score and Parts

This download includes the full score and parts for two trumpets (C and Bb) and two trombones for use with Heart and Voice to Heaven Raise by Benjamin Culli.

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: All Saints; Easter

9781451482911

O Lord, I Call to You

This beautiful setting of Psalm 130 encourages congregational involvement. This setting is a musical prayer for those who have come to understand the redemptive power of the Lord.

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781451479423

Ah, Holy Jesus

Based on Isaiah 53:4, Ah, Holy Jesus is a darkly set a capella work on the wages Christ paid for our sins. Rich in texture, the text ultimately sets this anthem...

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

9781451451535

What Wondrous Love Is This

New harmonies allow the innate beauty of this well-known text and melody to shine. With option for solo instrument, this classic hymn of the faith will quickly...

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

9780800621575

Hallelujah! Jesus Lives!

Opening with a brass fanfare that dialogues with the organ, listeners will thrill to hear every strain of this familiar Easter hymn. A variety of styles lend...

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

9780800621452

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

My Lord, What a Morning

The composer calls this the "cathedral" version. Its first performance was in a cathedral with Bishop Desmond Tutu present. Whether you are in a...

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

9780800623876

Breathe on Me

The long line of the text "breathe on me" is beautifully set in this anthem by young composer Aaron David Miller. Everything Aaron Miller touches is...

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General

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This Is My Beloved Son

This anthem can also be found in the Augsburg Choirbook.

9786000175955

St. John Passion

This set of choral anthems, based primarily on passion hymns, reflects upon the scriptural texts of The Passion according to St. John. Although conceived and...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Holy Week

9780800658588

As the Dark Awaits the Dawn

A classic from Carl Schalk, composer of "Before the Marvel of This Night," this will be the Advent anthem you turn to year after year for its poignant...

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent

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Give Me Jesus

A moving and highly effective setting of the traditional spiritual. Duets between the tenors and basses in the second verse and between the altos and sopranos...

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

9780800645274

The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee

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

9780800645595

Rock of Ages

Drawing on the beloved text of Rock of Ages, Michael Burkhardt has written a new tune with a flowing, gentle lilt that provides a fresh sound to the familiar.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Funeral; General; Lent & Holy Week

The Lord Is My Light: Dominus illuminatio mea

In this expressive setting of Psalm 27 by Daniel Nelson, the tenors and basses sing the title phrase in Latin on a reoccurring open fifth pattern while the trebles sing the psalm text in eloquent and soaring lines.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Epiphany; Ordinary Time; Psalms

O Jerusalem!

Wayne Wold wrote the poetry of this dramatic and stirring anthem while visiting the Holy Land and musically captures all the emotion of the Passion story with intense and colorful text painting.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Lent & Holy Week

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

Drop, Dew, from Heaven

Based on the text from Isaiah 45, Norris has composed a slowly building, atmospheric anthem perfect for Advent.

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