Augsburg Fortress

Lead Us On: Ten Hymn Settings for Piano

Bob Moore beautifully captures the mood of each hymn with a lyrical and improvisatory style in this collection of ten hymn tunes that can be found in All Creation Sings and other hymnals.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; All Saints; Easter; Epiphany; Lent & Holy Week

9781506496054

God of Hope: Global Hymn Tunes for Piano

This collection of eleven tunes features a rich variety of hymns, old and new, arranged by Mary Howarth in an engaging light jazz style. Tunes including AMEN THEMBA, ARGENTINA, SLANE, and HALLE, HALLE.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas; Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week; Stewardship

9781506496023

Raise the Glad Refrain: Easter Trumpet Tunes for Organ

Kyle Johnson has written a joyful and versatile collection of organ settings for the Easter season that includes an optional trumpet score.

Voicing: Inst, Kybd
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

9781506496030

Merciful and Mighty: Six Settings for Organ

This collection by David Maxwell features three hymn tune settings and three original compositions for organ written with a range of styles from chromatic and lyrical to complex and triumphant.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General; Lent & Holy Week; Trinity

9781506496047

Sweet is the Calm: Organ Settings on Hymns of Comfort

From a time of isolation comes this beautiful collection by Karl Osterland of hymns that provide comfort. Useful throughout the year and for funerals and memorials.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Easter; Funeral; Lent & Holy Week

9781506496078

Nada me falta: Psalm 23

Mark Sedio writes a bilingual Spanish and English setting of Psalm 23 with original music in the style of a Spanish folk tune.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; All Saints; Easter

Abide in Us, O Bread of Life

David Cherwien writes a tender anthem for SATB choir, organ, and flute, ideal for communion and sacramental use, based on a hymn from Peace Be Still: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Vol. 3.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium

Shall We Gather at the River

John Ferguson’s sparkling arrangement of the much-loved gospel tune HANSON PLACE has been rereleased under the Augsburg Music Alternative Hymn Settings series.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Funeral; General

9781506495996

Four By Four Easter: Easter Hymns for Piano and Four Ringers

The fourth collection in this series by Anne Krentz Organ features four Easter hymn tunes set for piano and four handbell or hand chime ringers.

Voicing: HB/Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

9781506496061

Light on Your Feet, Vol. 5

The fifth volume in this popular series by Wayne Wold features hymn arrangements and original compositions in settings that require moderate manual technique but make minimal demands on the feet.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas; Easter; Epiphany; Lent & Holy Week; Pentecost

9781506496085

A Cradle Song

Conveying the dreamlike mood of the William Blake poem that begins, “Sweet dreams, sleep, sleep happy child,” this Christmas anthem by David Hurd features sumptuous, jazz-inflected harmonies that gently sway beneath expressive choral writing.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Christmas

O Word of God Incarnate

The traditional hymn is set for unison choir by Brenda Portman with the familiar tune MUNICH. The flowing piano accompaniment enhances the anthem while supporting the singers.

Voicing: U, Pno
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Confirmation/Affirmation; Reformation

We Are Waiting

John Helgen wrote both the text and tune of this Advent hymn, found in the worship supplement All Creation Sings, and here, Priscilla Lamparter Landis writes a gentle and beautiful arrangement for SAB choir.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent

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 Splendor of God’s Glory Bright

Brenda Portman sets this familiar hymn text to the well-loved TALLIS’ CANON, creating an impressive and accessible anthem for 2-part, 3-part, or 4-part choir with a beautiful organ accompaniment.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd/SAB/SATB
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Epiphany; Evening; General; Summer

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

This Joyful Eastertide

Kristina Langlois sets the tune VRUECHTEN in a festive hymn setting for unison congregation, organ, and brass with a lively final stanza that includes a soprano descant.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

Come, Lord Jesus, Prince of Peace

Here is the perfect anthem for the first Sunday of Advent! Written in the style of an expressive art song, this unison/two-part mixed anthem by Frederick Frahm for adult choirs of any size is particularly useful when rehearsal time is limited.

Voicing: U/2pt mxd
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent

Gloria from Mariazeller Messe (Haydn)

Give your choir the exciting opportunity to sing an excerpt from a large-scale choral work! Ryan Kelly has selected the brief opening portion of the Gloria for this edition, featuring Haydn’s exuberant, straightforward homophonic choral writing true to the Classical era.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Christmas; Easter; Praise & Thanksgiving

O Keep Me as the Apple of Your Eye

William Bradley Roberts wrote a new tune for this setting of a Susan Palo Cherwien text that is reminiscent of Psalm 23, asking for God’s steadfast presence and comfort in our lives. Scored for SATB choir, it can also be sung by two-part mixed choir.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent; All Saints; Evening; Healing; Psalms