Augsburg Fortress

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

A beautiful anthem based on an English folk tune, perfect for Ash Wednesday or any time throughout Lent.

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

Each Winter As the Year Grows Older

This newer Advent hymn is appropriate any time during winter. The hymn's chant-like quality translates beautifully to choral music, further enhanced by optional instrumental accompaniment.

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent

9780800679323

A Cradle Song

Conveying the dreamlike mood of the William Blake poem that begins, “Sweet dreams, sleep, sleep happy child,” this Christmas anthem by David Hurd features sumptuous, jazz-inflected harmonies that gently sway beneath expressive choral writing.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Christmas

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

Evelyn Larter writes a refreshing setting of the traditional Polish lullaby in jazz style.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Christmas

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

John Carter combines a new melody with a familiar text to create a beautiful, rich anthem.

Voicing: Piano; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Good Friday; Lent & Holy Week; Three Days

The Hills Are Bare at Bethlehem

The perfect anthem for choirs of all sizes for Christmas Eve or lessons and carols services.

Voicing: Organ; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; Christmas

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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

9780800645106

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God: Alternative Hymn Settings

Long a favorite of congregations, Ein Feste Burg is one of Martin Luther's most famous tunes. Inspired by the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Aaron David Miller offers an alternative setting of this beloved hymn.

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

This Little Light of Mine

Choirs and congregations will love this upbeat, jazzy arrangement and pianists will have so much fun learning this accompaniment.

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

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Hear My Voice, O Lord

Jayne Southwick Cool adds to her impressive catalogue of choral music with this gorgeous composition for Lent.

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

9781506445656

Credo for Organ and Trumpet: Settings for Festive Occasions

This volume contains a three-movement suite utilizing both chant and chorale versions of the Nicene Creed, and exciting one-movement settings of other hymn tunes.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General

9781506413754

Children of the Heavenly Father

A classic a cappella setting of a classic Swedish folk tune. St. Olaf faculty member Robert Scholz expands the St. Olaf choral series with this choral treasure.

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

9780800659110

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

Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross

This piece is a lilting setting of a familiar hymn by Fanny Crosby...

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

9781451492521

Augsburg Motet Book

This beautiful collection of motets spans seven centuries, six countries, and four languages. Each short choral work is either unaccompanied or has instrumental doubling...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781451423709

Jesus Said, Come, Follow Me

This anthem has the simplest of texts, just the title, but that increases its usefulness. Discipleship, confirmation, ordination, time after Epiphany...

Voicing: A cappella
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Confirmation/Affirmation; General; Ordination

9781451420746

I'm Going on a Journey

For unison choir with optional assembly, this anthem really swings! Optional bass guitar and tenor saxophone add pizzazz and spice. Appropriate for any service...

Voicing: Children's choir; Unison
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Baptism; Confirmation/Affirmation

9780800664022

Gloria! Organ Music for Advent and Christmas

Now available as a digital download! Settings for organ solo of beloved carols for the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas; Epiphany

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Advent Prayer

Scored for two-part mixed choir and keyboard and based on the hymn Veni Emmanuel, Hal Hopson wrote this piece as a companion to his popular A Lenten Walk. Also available as a digital download.

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

O Lord, You Are My God and King

The stirring tune Jerusalem by H. H. Parry set to a wonderful paraphrase of Psalm 145 by Donald Busarow will add much to the Christ the King liturgy or...

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Christ the King; Easter

9780800657567