Augsburg Fortress

Now We Join in Celebration

A joyful anthem filled with playful, rhythmic grace.

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

Just As I Am, without One Plea

Maynard's new melody for this familiar text can be sung by any combination of voices.

Voicing: 2-part mixed; Piano
Difficulty: Easy
Use: General; Lent & Holy Week

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

This arrangement, first published in 1937, features all of F. Melius Christiansen's signature harmonic and melodic touches. Perfect for Christmas Eve, choirs will love learning or relearning this enduring setting.

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

God of the World: Hymn Tunes from Many Nations

A variety of creative organ settings on hymn tunes from around the world, useful throughout the year. Settings include "Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord!" and "This Joyful Eastertide."

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

9781506457178

Forty Days and Forty Nights

Choirs will enjoy the constantly shifting major and minor chords in Franklin Ashdown's anthem, illustrating the tension inherent in Lent.

Voicing: Organ; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Lent & Holy Week

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

A familiar Advent hymn paired with two unexpected tunes: a German chorale and English folk tune.

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

Lead On, O King Eternal

What kind of king is Jesus? Ferguson's setting explores how God's reign might be filled with peace and gentleness rather than military conquest.

Voicing: Organ; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Christ the King; General

Savior of the Nations, Come: Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord

Choirs of all sizes can be successful with this anthem which pairs one of two texts with a familiar advent hymn.

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

Christ, the Solid Rock

A new rocking, gospel-style melody for a beloved hymn text.

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

The Newborn King of Ages

Richard Clemmitt's delightful anthem based on an English carol, perfect for Christmas.

Voicing: Organ; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Christmas; Epiphany

Unless You Lead Me, Love

Keesecker's setting of poetry by 13th cent. mystic Mechtild of Magdeburg invites us to dance and sing with the love that created the world.

Voicing: Piano; SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter; General; Pentecost

We Worship You, God

An anthem that sings of God's unfolding acts through history, God's constancy, and our amazement at God's faithfulness.

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

Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling

Brenda Portman's lovely, expressive choral setting of this beloved hymn features beautiful part-writing and a flowing piano accompaniment with optional a cappella sections.

Voicing: Piano; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: All Saints; Funeral; General; Lent & Holy Week

My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness

Anne Krentz Organ has written a lilting and lyrical musical setting of this Magnificat paraphrase, perfect for Advent 4 or Lessons and Carols services.

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

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

Only By Our Lonesome

The lyrics of this worship song by Nate Crary call us out of isolation and into community. The arrangement of this piece lends well to simple instrumentation with piano and/or guitar.

Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Communion; Easter; General; Lent & Holy Week; Maundy Thursday

9781506457321

Across the Pond: Organ Settings on English Tunes

Kevin Uppercue's organ writing is extremely well-crafted and creative, as evident by the thoughtful counterpoint, rhythmic variation, and lyrical treatment in these settings on English hymn tunes. Useful throughout the year as preludes, postludes, or extended hymn introductions.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: All Saints; Christmas; Epiphany; General; Lent & Holy Week; Transfiguration

9781506457253

All Praise to Thee

A lovely, lyrical anthem setting of a Christmas hymn text by Martin Luther.

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

Go to Dark Gethsemane

David W. Music gives new life to this beloved hymn by providing a new melody.

Voicing: Piano; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Lent & Holy Week

Love Is Come Again

Hear the Easter hymn "Now the Green Blade Rises" with new ears in this sensitive and sweeping musical setting by Jeff Fuhrer.

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