Augsburg Fortress

A Mystery, a Miracle

Jayne Southwick Cool wrote both the text and the tune of this gently flowing hymn-anthem, which speaks to the mystery and wonder of the Incarnation.

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

Unto Us a Child Is Born

Eugene Hancock marvelously knits together the tune of the spiritual “Mary Had a Baby” with the chant “Hodie Christus natus est” and clothes them with the Christmas text from Isaiah.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Christmas

Rock of Ages

Drawing on the beloved text of Rock of Ages, Michael Burkhardt has written a new tune with a flowing, gentle lilt that provides a fresh sound to the familiar.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Funeral; General; Lent & Holy Week

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.

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

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.

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

The Road to Resurrection

Roberta Rowland-Raybold takes us on a journey through Lent, Holy Week, and Easter in this collection of organ settings for the Paschal story. Thoughtful and expressive, these settings are useful organ voluntaries for this holy time of the liturgical year.

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

9781506466125

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

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

A Gentle Christmas: Piano Carols

This collection of carol settings is useful in worship as well as the many other times we are called upon to play music during the Christmas season, such as retirement centers, church dinners, hospitals, or for home celebrations.

Voicing: Piano
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Christmas

9781506466149

Christ the Center

Perfect for the smaller choir and an easy addition for large choirs, this stately hymnlike anthem features a Herb Brokering text appropriate for Christ the King and occasions focused on Christ’s work in our lives.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Org
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Christ the King; Confirmation/Affirmation; General; Ordination

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

Song of Thanksgiving

Tony Ward's paraphrase of Psalm 111 delights in God's beauty, gracious mercy, and endless love.

Voicing: 2-part mixed; Piano
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Epiphany; General

The Healing of the Nations

A stunning anthem setting Revelation 22 to music: "The river of the water of life flows from the throne of God...the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." Great for themes of healing, reconciliation, justice, creation, new life and peace.

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

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

God So Loved the World

Originally written for a children's choir, ensembles of all sizes will enjoy this lovely unison setting of John 3:16-17.

Voicing: Organ; Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General

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

I Hear Music in the Air: Spirituals for Solo Voice and Piano

Spiritual arrangements from Clayton White for solo voice and piano, arranged in the manner of art songs.

Voicing: Piano; Solo vocal