Augsburg Fortress

Wondrous Love: Piano Settings

Featuring tunes for Lent and Easter as well as those for more general use, this collection of hymn settings for piano will be a useful addition to any musician's library.

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

9781506426457

F. Melius Christiansen Organ Anthology

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of F. Melius Christiansen’s birth, this anthology collects the best of his free works for organ along with transcriptions of his choral anthems.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; All Saints; Christmas; Funeral; General; Lent & Holy Week; Reformation; Wedding

9781506479934

Christ, Who Was Before the World Began

A newly composed tune is paired with an Angier Brock text in this anthem by Brenda Portman. Written for adult unison choir, the anthem features a lyrical and noble melody in a flexible mixed meter.  

Voicing: U, Org; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General; Lent & Holy Week

Before the Marvel of This Night

Published in 1982, this setting of Jaroslav Vajda's wonderful text has become our best-selling seasonal anthem. Also available: instrumental parts by Carl...

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

God Alone Be Praised: Ad Lucem

A lyrical and accessible hymn anthem useful for Reformation Day, Christ the King or other church celebrations. This is one of two tunes commissioned by ALCM for its 30th anniversary and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Voicing: Piano; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Christ the King; Reformation

9781506447209

Piano Reflections on Hymns of Healing

Anne Krentz Organ continues her piano reflections series with this volume of hymn for healing, including "Abide with Me" and "Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song".

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Funeral; General; Lent & Holy Week

9781506448060

Only By Our Lonesome

The lyrics of this worship song by Nate Crary call us out of isolation and into community. The arrangement of this piece lends well to simple instrumentation with piano and/or guitar.

Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Communion; Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week; Maundy Thursday

9781506457321

Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song

A gentle and graceful setting of a beloved hymn, perfect for graduations, sendings, anniversaries and ordinations.

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

Festival Setting of Holy Communion (Setting 1)

Festival Setting of Holy Communion, Setting One from Evangelical Lutheran Worship for assembly, vocal descant, brass ensemble, organ and optional timpani.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Communion

So Great a Cloud of Witnesses: A Paul D. Weber Hymnary

Paul Weber’s collection of 91 hymns is patterned after Luther’s understanding of the importance of congregational song for faith and worship. Skillfully written in traditional hymn style, this collection adds a wealth of new and creative music to the church’s song.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; All Saints; Baptism; Christmas; Communion; Creation; Easter; Epiphany; Evening; General; Healing; Holy Week; Lent & Holy Week; Marriage; Ordinary Time; Pentecost; Season after Pentecost; Time after Epiphany; Trinity; Wedding

9781506480077

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

Four by Four, Volume 2: Hymns for Piano and Four Ringers

Anne Krentz Organ continues this popular series of music for piano and four ringers (handbells or chimes) with a second volume based on general hymn tunes.

Voicing: Handbells; Piano
Difficulty: Easy-Medium

9781506487311

Take Up Your Cross

Set to a lilting Scottish folk tune, Anthony Giamanco writes easy choral music appropriate for high school through adult. The clear and clean writing makes this...

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9780800678968

Dancing at the Harvest: Accompaniment Edition

Written in a variety of popular musical styles, these songs can be used in worship and on other occasions. The collection is arranged according to the seasons...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780800655945

Lord, It Belongs Not to My Care

Scored for SATB and organ. An elegant and lyric setting of a text by 17th century poet Richard Baxter.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: All Saints; Funeral; General

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

Stars! Angels! Shepherds! Kings!

Stars! Angels! Shepherds! Kings! was written to be performed by children's choirs of all ages, large and small. The entire musical may be performed by one choir...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Christmas

Love Consecrates the Humblest Act

A graceful and elegant setting of the hymn tune TWENTY-FOURTH from Robert Powell which carries the beloved Maundy Thursday hymn text.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Lent & Holy Week; Maundy Thursday

Christ Is the Life: Organ Settings for the Church Year

Brenda Portman’s understanding of the organ comes to life in her collection of ten arrangements of hymns found in the worship supplement All Creation Sings, with writing that makes use of styles and techniques characteristic of the organ.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781506487328

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