Augsburg Fortress

Take My Voice and Let Me Sing: Music for Smaller Ensembles

With a mix of anthems scored for unison/two-part and SAB choirs, Wayne Wold writes well-crafted music for smaller sized choirs that is musically interesting and engaging.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd/SAB/SATB
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; General; Lent & Holy Week; Pentecost

9781506486628

ChildrenSing Creation

This engaging collection for singers 8-12 years old provides 11 anthems that highlight a variety of themes related to creation from the delight of God’s creative activity to our role in honoring and caring for the earth. Composers include Helen Kemp, John Ferguson, and Mark Patterson.

Voicing: U/2pt mxd
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; Autumn; Christmas; Creation; Fall; General; Spring; Stewardship; Summer; Winter

9781506486635

What Feast of Love

Brian Wentzel writes a partner song for GREENSLEEVES with the text from this familiar communion hymn, creating a wonderful anthem useful throughout the year and particularly beautiful during the Christmas season.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Kybd
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; Christmas; Communion

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

9781506418261

Still, Still, Still

The traditional Austrian carol is set by Chris Biemesderfer in a charming, accessible arrangement for SAB choir with a gentle piano accompaniment.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Christmas

Creator of the Stars of Night

Original music by Andrew Bruhn provides a fresh and tuneful setting of the familiar Advent hymn.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Kybd
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent

There's a Wideness in God's Mercy

In this creative and expressive anthem, Brenda Portman writes captivating new music to go with familiar words reflecting on the graciousness of God and what is required of us in return.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General; Lent & Holy Week; Reformation

Away in a Manger

Enjoy this stress-free yet elegant SAB setting of the familiar carol using the tune CRADLE SONG, lovingly arranged by John Ferguson for his grandson.

Voicing: SAB
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Christmas

Christ Calls to Me

Anthony Giamanco sets a text by Mennonite poet Adam M. L. Tice in this expressive SATB anthem with lyrical melodies and jazz-inflected harmonies. The text speaks of Christ’s grace-filled blessings to us even when we stray.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Confirmation/Affirmation; Ordination; Reformation

It Came upon the Midnight Clear

Imaginative text painting brings added depth to this well-loved carol arranged by Tom Trenney. Lyrical writing is mixed with lush chordal harmonies along with a full piano accompaniment.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Christmas

Augsburg Easy Choirbook, Volume 1: Music for the Church Year

A new must-have collection of sacred choral music that is easy and accessible to the smaller, less accomplished choir—yet substantial and interesting...

Voicing: 2-part mixed; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; All Saints; Christ the King; Christmas; Communion; Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week; Thanksgiving

9780800676025

Rise Up and Go Tell It!

Two spirituals about the shepherds are paired in this exciting anthem by Anthony Giamanco, which begins with “Rise Up, Shepherds, and Follow” and segues into “Go Tell It on the Mountain.”

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Pno
Difficulty: Easy
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

Augsburg Easy Choirbook, Volume 2: Music for the Church Year

An outstanding collection of accessible music for church, school, and community choirs. Included are varied selections for the church year, with old favorites...

Voicing: 2-part mixed; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; All Saints; Christ the King; Christmas; Communion; Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week; Thanksgiving

9780800677510

Praise to the Lord (revised edition)

One of the classic hymn arrangements by F. Melius Christiansen, updated and revised in celebration of Christiansen’s 150^th anniversary.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Christ the King; General; Reformation; Thanksgiving

9781506488851

Night Long Awaited / Noche de paz

An Argentinian text and tune found in All Creation Sings are skillfully arranged by Sherri Hansen in this gentle anthem, which incorporates a stanza of “Silent Night.”

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Christmas

Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies

Writing new music set to a familiar Charles Wesley text, Mark Sirett once again shows his mastery of beautiful melodic writing mixed with rich harmonic textures.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Epiphany; General; Transfiguration

From Generation to Generation

Tom Trenney creatively adapts the Isaac Watts text “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” and pairs it with exciting original music that incorporates fragments of the tune ST. ANNE.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Confirmation/Affirmation; Ordination; Reformation

Lord of All Hopefulness

Nancy Grundahl’s reflective setting of this beloved hymn draws the listener to the text by beginning each stanza with a prayerful choral phrase asking for bliss, strength, love, and peace.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Evening; General

Word of God, Come Down on Earth

With imaginative text painting, Thomas Keesecker’s anthem on this familiar chorale brings the text and tune to life.