Augsburg Fortress

Love and Mercy

Walter Pelz's new tune and the thoughtful words of Herb Brokering weave together with exquisite harmony for choir, oboe or other C instrument and organ. Enjoy a...

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9780800638696

How Can I Keep from Singing?

Listen for the "sweet, though far-off hymn" in this exquisite arrangement of the much loved hymn "How Can I Keep from Singing." The setting, by Eric Nelson,...

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

9780800675172

Epiphany Carol

A joyful, unison anthem which works well with just women. The middle section in plain-song style can be an effective solo.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Epiphany

9780800653910

Where in the World: Folksong Warmups from Many Lands

Based on folk tunes from many lands, these vocalises help develop the singing voices of children. Suggestions for their use are included.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Pentecost

9780800648008

See What Love

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter

9780800645618

Creating God, Your Fingers Trace

This imaginative text calls us to care for the earth, the universe, and all of creation with the same tender spirit in which God created them.

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

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God: Alternative Hymn Settings

Long a favorite of congregations, Ein Feste Burg is one of Martin Luther's most famous tunes. Inspired by the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Aaron David Miller offers an alternative setting of this beloved hymn.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General; Reformation

As the Showers that Water the Earth

David Sims skillfully weaves a Susan Palo Cherwien text with Psalm 50 in this gently flowing anthem filled with graceful text-painting reflecting God’s promises of healing and new life.

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

Song in the Night

Zach Busch creatively wraps a gentle setting of “Song in the Night” around the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee,” making it suitable for Advent, Lent, or general use. 

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; Lent & Holy Week

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Amy Engelsdorfer sets Isaac Watts's beloved text with a fresh, melodic line that reflects the solemnity and adoration of the text.

Voicing: Piano; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9781506422206

Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive

This original tune is in a setting that may be easily mastered by 2-part mixed choir, with only a few measures of divisi for the women at its climax.

Voicing: Piano; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9781506408644

Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley

Based on the traditional spiritual, this unison anthem is a great option for both the small choir and the choir with limited rehearsal time. This easy-to-learn...

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

9781451401028

Come, Let Us Eat

John Helgen brings this much loved song for holy communion to life for the children's choir or unison voices. This versatile setting is useful throughout the...

Voicing: Children's choir; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Communion

9780800679354

I Want Jesus to Walk with Me

This wonderful setting of the traditional spiritual is one that children will love to sing! The text is accessible to children and adults alike, and the soaring...

Voicing: Children's choir; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General

9780800678418

O Lord, throughout These Forty Days

Composer Walter Pelz has set this standard Lenten text to a wonderful new tune, "Forty Days". A lovely experience of new, yet familiar, combined with a...

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9780800637538

The Strife Is O'er

John Ferguson knows how to sculpt a masterpiece. He is creative and imaginative, practical and accessible. In "The Strife Is O'er" he envelopes a common Easter...

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Easter

Have Mercy on Me

Clayton White composes a gentle and reverent gospel ballad reflecting on an adaptation of Psalm 51. The choir sings the psalm verses with a solo voice responding, “Have mercy, O God.”

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Ash Wednesday; Lent & Holy Week; Psalms

Christ, the Solid Rock

A new rocking, gospel-style melody for a beloved hymn text.

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

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

How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place

A lovely and accessible setting of Psalm 84 for assembly and choir. Marrying a paraphrase from the 1650 Scottish Psalter with a paraphrase from hymn writer Carl P. Daw Jr.

Voicing: Organ; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General

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