Augsburg Fortress

Organ Miniatures: Hymn Introductions and Settings

These brief and imaginative hymn settings are useful as introductions, organ stanzas, interludes, ways of extending a hymn after being sung by the assembly, as well as models for further improvisation and composition.

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

9781506466088

In the Fair Morning

Evelyn Larter initially wrote this uplifting Easter piece as a vocal solo in the collection “In the Fair Morning: Vocal Solos for the Easter Season” and here has rescored it for SATB choir.   

Voicing: SATB, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

Long Fare You Well

Undine Smith Moore’s arrangement of the lesser-known spiritual “Long Fare You Well” builds on the expressive melody and concludes in a glorious final stanza. 

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General

Child's Elm Song

Michael Dennis Browne’s poem imploring us to use our lives for the service and beauty of others is set to music by Carolyn Jennings in a flowing, lyrical anthem.

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

Augsburg Organ Library Series 2 Lent

Augsburg Organ Library: Lent, Series 2, contains 43 pieces for worship or recitals based on Lent hymn tunes.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9781506448107

A Wedding Music Anthology: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

A tremendously valuable collection of arrangements of classic pieces as well as original free works for weddings, funerals, and other worship services. This new edition includes all five Wedding Music collections by David N. Johnson in one volume with reproducible instrument parts.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Funeral; Wedding

9781506465982

Augsburg Organ Library Series 2 Easter

Augsburg Organ Library: Easter, contains 35 pieces for worship or recitals based on Easter hymn tunes.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter

9781506448114

Hymns of Joy and Grace, Volume 2: Piano Settings for Lent and Easter

From reflective Lenten arrangements to joyful Easter pieces marked “with exuberance,” Sylvia Oines’ second volume in this series continues to provide varied and creative interpretations of familiar hymn tunes.

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

9781506487304

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

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

In Praise of Love: Piano Settings for Lent and Easter

With his dynamic writing style, Zach Unke’s collection for Lent and Easter showcases all the moods of the season, from tender and contemplative to cheerful and celebratory.

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

9781506487359

Draw Us In: Organ Settings

David Lasky has skillfully arranged a variety of hymn tunes, mostly from the twentieth century, giving each a fresh interpretation.

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

9781506466095

Four by Four Christmas: Carols for Piano and Four Ringers

Four Christmas hymn settings for piano and four ringers (handbells or chimes) by Anne Krentz Organ, following the popular Four by Four: Hymns volume.

Voicing: Handbells; Piano
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Christmas

9781506466101

Death Be Never Last

David Sims has beautifully arranged a gentle and expressive Ray Makeever hymn, published in All Creation Sings perfect for All Saints Sunday or funeral and memorial services.

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

Awake and Sing: Hymn Introductions and Accompaniments

In this collection featuring 16 hymn tunes, Eric Wall provides an introduction and multiple arrangements of each, thoughtfully crafted and reflective of the hymn text associated with each tune.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Christmas; Communion; Easter; Epiphany; General; Lent & Holy Week; Pentecost; Time after Epiphany

9781506487366

Calm to the Waves: Three Hymns for Choir and Assembly

Thom Pavlechko groups three of his new hymns into a creative and flexible collection for choir, congregation, keyboard, and instruments.

Voicing: SATB, Kybd
Difficulty: Easy
Use: All Saints; Healing; Ordinary Time

Day of Delight and Beauty Unbounded

This jubilant setting of a new Easter hymn in All Creation Sings is based on the tune IN DIR IST FREUDE. Paul D. Weber writes in a joyful Renaissance style, highlighting the dancelike rhythms of the melody complete with hand drum.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Easter

In the Fair Morning: Vocal Solos for the Easter Season

Vocal solos from Evelyn R. Larter that burst forth with Easter joy, featuring pieces in a variety of styles from classical to contemporary.

Voicing: Solo vocal
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Easter; Funeral; General

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