Augsburg Fortress

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

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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

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

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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 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

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

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

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

Sing Praise to God, Who Reigns Above

In a joyful, lilting 6/8 meter, Richard A. Williamson has set a well-loved hymn of praise to the tune MIT FREUDEN ZART, creating a singable and enjoyable anthem for 2-part mixed choir.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Evening; Praise & Thanksgiving

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

Poinsettia Carol: Flores de pascua

Here is a delightful unison/2-part setting by Frederick Frahm of a Cuban Christmas carol found in the worship book Libro de Liturgia y Cántico, perfect for mixed adult ensemble or children and youth choirs.

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

Balulalow

The text of this carol was first published in 1567 and is a translation of the Martin Luther hymn “From Heaven Above.” Paul Lohman writes new music for the carol and includes quotations from the tune VOM HIMMEL HOCH.

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

God Is Our Refuge

Zebulon Highben makes Psalm 46 come to life with musical text-painting that supports the dramatic shifts in mood within the psalm.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Confirmation/Affirmation; Psalms; Reformation

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

The Church of Christ, in Every Age

David Cherwien writes a festive arrangement of the familiar hymn set in classical concertato style. An uplifting addition to the Augsburg Choral Hymn Series that highlights the need for social justice and care of neighbors.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: General

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

Lift Up Your Heads

Written in the beloved choral hymn tradition, Olaf C. Christiansen’s uplifting and energetic arrangement of this well-loved Advent hymn nearly sings itself.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Advent

If You Continue in My Word

A master of choral writing, Walter L. Pelz has lovingly set his own confirmation verse, John 8:31-32, in a well-crafted anthem that is a joy to sing.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Confirmation/Affirmation; Reformation

Lord, Have Mercy

Here is an expressive and dynamic anthem from Undine Smith Moore, featuring original music in the style of an African American spiritual. Ideal for Lent or anytime a choral setting of the Kyrie is needed.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent; Lent & Holy Week