Augsburg Fortress

Today There Is Ringing

This joyful Christmas anthem in the St. Choral Series adds wonderful imagery to the season and offers dramatic choral writing that is both dynamic and emotive. 

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Christmas

I Dream a World

Langston Hughes's vision for a better world comes to life through the music of Nancy Raabe in a warm and tuneful unison choral setting.

Voicing: U, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Creation; General

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

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

Glory to God

This exuberant anthem by Undine Smith Moore, first released in 1979, is written in the style of a spiritual and features exciting rhythmic and imitative motives.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Christmas; General

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.

Worship & Praise Full Music Edition

An essential companion to the Songbook. Keyboard players, guitarists, percussionists and other ensemble musicians will find the full music arrangement of each...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

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Now the Feast and Celebration

Commissioned by the Campus Ministry Department of Pacific Lutheran University. Contemporary and inclusive language.

Use: Communion; Easter; Lent & Holy Week

Touch That Soothes and Heals

An Easter hymn from All Creation Sings is set by Thomas Keesecker in this accessible SAB anthem useful throughout the Easter Season and particularly on the Second Sunday of Easter.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Communion; Easter; Healing

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

Prelude Music Planner

Prelude Music Planner is an online tool that makes worship planning easy and efficient, leaving you more time to do what you do best: making music.

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship Simplified Accompaniment Edition: Liturgies

Similar to the Simplified Keyboard Hymns and Service Music, this edition presents all ten settings of Holy Communion, the Service of the Word, and Morning and Evening Prayer in easier-to-play versions...

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Singing in Community: Paperless Music for Worship

Singing in Community invites you to reconnect with singing and leading music as generations before us have done, something actually begun in ancient times. Before Gutenberg made it possible to "put the music in people's hands," congregational song and folk hymns were led without printed music for each singer. We can learn to sing in this way - a practice that seems new, but is very old.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

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The Son of God, Our Christ

Anne Krentz Organ has crafted a beautifully effective and useful setting of this hymn from Evangelical Lutheran Worship with the tune SURSUM CORDA. The text focuses on themes of call and discipleship and is ideal for services of ordination and ministry recognition.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General

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

My Shepherd, You Supply My Need

Brenda Portman writes a stunning and serene SATB setting of this hymn paraphrase of Psalm 23 by Isaac Watts, paired with the familiar tune RESIGNATION. The rich choral harmonies are reflective of lush, verdant meadows and the gorgeous accompaniment is scored for cello and piano.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Easter; General; Psalms

Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

Probably the quintessential Easter hymn is here given an updated arrangement by Aaron David Miller for unison choir, descant, congregation, brass quintet, and organ...

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter

Worship & Praise Songbook

The People's Edition, containing words and a single melody line for each song. A few songs often sung in harmony are included in a four-part arrangement....

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806638508

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

Te Deum: The Church and Music

Written in an instructive yet pastoral style, this guide will appeal to clergy, church musicians, and students of worship and worship music. Te Deum has become a primary classroom text for teaching church music at the college, seminary, and graduate level.

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