Augsburg Fortress

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.

9780800659318

Little Chorale Preludes For Piano

Carter writes fresh new settings of old beloved hymn tunes; his writing is very accessible and thus attractive to a wide ecumenical audience of church musicians...

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780800676728

Of the Land and Seasons: Assembly Edition

Based on Evangelical Lutheran texts, this revised and updated version keeps the underlying concept of a paraphrase setting of holy communion that is based on rural rhythms of work and life.

9781451470185

O Spirit Bountifully Kind

Kenneth Logan's beautiful unison setting of a poem by seventeenth-century Irish poet Thomas Parnell is perfect for Pentecost or general use.

Voicing: Organ; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Baptism; Confirmation/Affirmation; General; Ordination; Pentecost

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

Trumpet Tunes for Organ

Not only the best of David N. Johnson's trumpet tunes, but some never-before-published tunes are collected into this collection. Organists will also...

9780800674823

Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me

Based on the Gregorian "Adoro te devote," this Pentecost anthem has applications beyond that season. Perfect for a smaller choir, but equally successful with a...

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Pentecost; Trinity

Christ's Blessing

This brief but rich motet asks for Christ's Blessing upon everyone.

Voicing: Organ; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter; General; Ordination

Forty Days and Forty Nights

Choirs will enjoy the constantly shifting major and minor chords in Franklin Ashdown's anthem, illustrating the tension inherent in Lent.

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

Augsburg Organ Library Series 2: Christmas

Augsburg Organ Library: Christmas, contains 36 pieces for worship or recitals based on Christmas hymn tunes.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Christmas

9781506448084

O Blessed Spring: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien

Twenty-seven of Susan Palo Cherwien's hymn texts are collected in this volume, many of them set to music by a number of today's top composers, including Robert...

9780800656799

God Alone Be Praised: Moderately Advanced Organ Setting

Kevin Hildebrand's more advanced of PER CRUCEM for organ was comissioned by the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians in 2017 for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. The ritornello motive is based on J.S. Bach's Toccata in D minor, and he also incorporates the chorale tune ERHALT UNS, HERR.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Reformation

9781506464008

At the Name of Jesus: Piano Settings

Zach Unke's piano style is accessible, fresh, and varied. He makes full use of the piano's range and color in this volume of music that you will find useful across the entire church year.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Christ the King; Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week; Trinity

9781506448046

Wedding Music, Book 2: Processionals and Recessionals

Includes: Allegro--Allegro Maestoso--Finale from Concerto No. 5--Hornpipe--March--O Love How Deep, How Broad, How High--The Prince of Denmark's...

9780800648930

My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

This anthem on the tune KINGSFOLD sets two different hymn texts, making it useful throughout Advent, the season after Epiphany, or general use.

Voicing: 2-part mixed; Piano
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; Baptism

Go to Dark Gethsemane

David W. Music gives new life to this beloved hymn by providing a new melody.

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

Let Us Love One Another

Written for a wedding and appropriate for any lectionary day about love, Mark Sirett's setting of this well-known text from 1 John features beautiful, lyrical part-writing and a flowing accompaniment.

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

When Twilight Comes

Wentzel's new melody for "When Twilight Comes" is the perfect anthem for Maundy Thursday, evening services, or during communion distribution.

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

Our Paschal Lamb that Sets Us Free

Martin Franzmann's lively text dances in 6/8 time, and the brass quintet adds brilliance and gravity.

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

There Are Children at the Door

A hauntingly profound anthem by David Cherwien that sets a poem by Herb Brokering about Jesus' call to care for refugee and migrant children.

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