Augsburg Fortress

How Beautiful the Messenger

Wayne Wold weaves a new text based on the well-loved passage from Isaiah 52:7. The tuneful melody floats between the upper and lower voices in this gentle anthem scored for SATB choir.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Christmas; Graduation; Ordination

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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Augsburg Organ Library Series 2 Easter

Augsburg Organ Library: Easter, contains 35 pieces for worship or recitals based on Easter hymn tunes.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter

9781506448114

Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Psalter for Worship, Year B

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

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806653839

O Come, Let Us Sing

Here is a festive setting of Psalm 95 by well-loved composer Walter Pelz written in honor of his 95^th birthday. Choirs of any size will create a big sound in this accessible SAB anthem.

Voicing: SAB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Christ the King; General; Lent & Holy Week

May the Deep Blessings of Earth Be with Us

Tom Trenney brings a deeply imaginative text from John Philip Newell to life in this dynamic anthem for SATB choir.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Creation; General

What Joyous Song Unfolding

A gently contoured melody uplifts the poetry of Susan Cherwien in this graceful anthem by Zebulon Highben. The music is largely 2-part mixed with an expressive SATB a cappella third stanza.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Creation; General; Praise & Thanksgiving

Arise and Rejoice

Here is a joyful anthem of praise and thanksgiving from Mark Patterson. The original text celebrates the “gifts of age and youth, the wisdom of the years” and is paired with energetic and uplifting music.

Voicing: SATB, Children's choir, HB
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General; Ordination; Praise & Thanksgiving; Stewardship; Thanksgiving

Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

Scored for SATB, keyboard, and optional C instrument, William Bradley Roberts writes a new setting of his popular unison anthem based on a beloved hymn text paraphrase of Psalm 23 and pairs it with his original tune, GRANT.

Voicing: SATB, Kybd
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Easter; Funeral

Assembly Song Companion to All Creation Sings

Assembly Song Companion to All Creation Sings is an accessible reference resource that supports the use of its diverse musical content by worshiping assemblies and their leaders.

9781506480091

Joyous Light: Evening Prayer Service: Leader and musician edition

A contemporary setting of evening prayer, offered in thanksgiving as daylight gives way to the night. Ray Makeever gives new shape to the song and psalms of an order of worship that has long brought a holy rest to the people of God.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Evening

9780800659318

O Splendor of God’s Glory Bright

Brenda Portman sets this familiar hymn text to the well-loved TALLIS’ CANON, creating an impressive and accessible anthem for 2-part, 3-part, or 4-part choir with a beautiful organ accompaniment.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd/SAB/SATB
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Epiphany; Evening; General; Summer

Holy Woman, Graceful Giver

Anne Krentz Organ has set each stanza of “Holy Woman, Graceful Giver” from All Creation Sings to accompany assembly singing on piano or organ with C instrument.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Lent & Holy Week; Ordination

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Sweet is the Calm: Organ Settings on Hymns of Comfort

From a time of isolation comes this beautiful collection by Karl Osterland of hymns that provide comfort. Useful throughout the year and for funerals and memorials.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Easter; Funeral; Lent & Holy Week

9781506496078

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

Beautiful Savior

A classic in choral literature and a standard in the St. Olaf Choir repertoire, this graceful setting of a stirring text continues to inspire. The text speaks...

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General

Lead Us On: Ten Hymn Settings for Piano

Bob Moore beautifully captures the mood of each hymn with a lyrical and improvisatory style in this collection of ten hymn tunes that can be found in All Creation Sings and other hymnals.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; All Saints; Easter; Epiphany; Lent & Holy Week

9781506496054

Four By Four Easter: Easter Hymns for Piano and Four Ringers

The fourth collection in this series by Anne Krentz Organ features four Easter hymn tunes set for piano and four handbell or hand chime ringers.

Voicing: HB/Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

9781506496061

God of Hope: Global Hymn Tunes for Piano

This collection of eleven tunes features a rich variety of hymns, old and new, arranged by Mary Howarth in an engaging light jazz style. Tunes including AMEN THEMBA, ARGENTINA, SLANE, and HALLE, HALLE.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas; Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week; Stewardship

9781506496023

Thou Shalt Know Him

This piece by Canadian composer Mark Sirett is exquisite in every way, from its rich harmonic writing to its poignant text.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent