Augsburg Fortress

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

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

Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen! Earth and All Stars

This anthem for SATB voices, organ, optional brass quartet (or quintet) timpani and four handbells also has an optional part for the assembly...

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

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

Lamb of God

F. Melius Christiansen's arrangement features a German chorale matched to a Lenten text. Simple, yet beautiful lines offer a piece that's easy to learn and a joy to hear.

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

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today!

Delightful and joyous, this dance-like setting of the familiar hymn “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today!” by Kristina Langlois highlights the character of the Medieval tune ORIENTIS PARTIBUS and captures the excitement of the Easter text.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Org
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Easter

Children of the Heavenly Father

A setting of a familiar Swedish folk tune that incorporates children's voices. This anthem can also be found in the Augsburg Choirbook.

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed

9786000175597

A Lenten Walk

A haunting setting of the familiar American spiritual, Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley. The timpani ostinato is a wonderful addition to a very easy, yet...

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

9780800654481

O Jesus, I Have Promised

Thomas Keesecker creatively sets this familiar hymn text to the English folksong SALLY GARDENS with lush and accessible writing that sings beautifully.

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; Confirmation/Affirmation; Lent & Holy Week; Reformation

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

Gospel Acclamations for Lent through Holy Trinity

Digital Download edition. Choral gospel acclamations for Lent through Holy Trinity with one per Sunday or festival day in church year, years A, B, and C. Unison with keyboard accompaniment and congregational part. Permission is granted for duplication of this entire digital download by the original purchaser for local use.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Ash Wednesday; Easter; Lent & Holy Week; Pentecost

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Choral Stanzas for Hymns, Vol. 1

In this first volume of the two-volume set of choral stanzas, you will find settings of 80 hymns. With the creation of Evangelical Lutheran Worship came the...

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806698410

Vocal Descants for the Church Year

More than 250 descants and counter-melodies for Evangelical Lutheran Worship hymn tunes. Text included for most hymns! Thirty festive settings—original keyboard setting and descant.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780800679439

The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want

An exuberant and creative setting of Psalm 23! Arranged for SATB a cappella choir and tambourine, this is fresh work is sure to enliven any worship service or concert.

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

9781451401752

Praise the Rock of Our Salvation

With ''Praise the Rock of Our Salvation'' we welcome Aaron David Miller to the Augsburg Fortress choral catalog. Aaron has written for the organ catalog and has...

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

9780800676506

Creator Spirit, Come

A majestic setting for SATB and organ for the Feast of Pentecost.

Voicing: SATB, Kybd
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Pentecost; Season after Pentecost

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O Day Full of Grace

Music based on the classic hymn traditionally sung at Pentecost. Set for SATB choir, organ, brass quartet, and optional assembly. A set of parts for 2 trumpets in B-flat and 2 trombones is available by instant download.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Pentecost

Peace I Leave with You

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

9780800645656

Canticle of the Turning: My Soul Cries Out with a Joyful Shout

A children's or youth choir could sing the first verse of this flexible arrangement, with an adult choir joining on the refrain and leading subsequent verses.

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