Augsburg Fortress

Christ's Blessing

This brief but rich motet asks for Christ's Blessing upon everyone.

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

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

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

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

Let Us Love One Another

Written for a wedding and appropriate for any lectionary day about love, Mark Sirett's setting of this well-known text from 1 John features beautiful, lyrical part-writing and a flowing accompaniment.

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

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

My Soul Proclaims Your Greatness: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

This anthem on the tune KINGSFOLD sets two different hymn texts, making it useful throughout Advent, the season after Epiphany, or general use.

Voicing: 2-part mixed; Piano
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Advent; Baptism

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

Our Paschal Lamb that Sets Us Free

Martin Franzmann's lively text dances in 6/8 time, and the brass quintet adds brilliance and gravity.

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

Ride On, King Jesus: Palm Sunday Medley

Three hymns and spirituals appropriate for Palm Sunday are combined in this medley that features a lively piano accompaniment and many options for ensemble performance.

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