Augsburg Fortress

Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen! Earth and All Stars

This anthem for SATB voices, organ, optional brass quartet (or quintet) timpani and four handbells also has an optional part for the assembly...

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

Ah, Holy Jesus

Classic John Ferguson. Easy, yet very effective with a recurring bass ostinato. This work is included on the hymn festival recording from ALCM which was completed in 1994.

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Lent & Holy Week

Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing!

Bankson pairs a beloved Easter hymn text with the broad and noble hymn tune BEVERLY.

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

Lamb of God

F. Melius Christiansen's arrangement features a German chorale matched to a Lenten text. Simple, yet beautiful lines offer a piece that's easy to learn and a joy to hear.

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

Beautiful Savior

A classic in choral literature and a standard in the St. Olaf Choir repertoire, this graceful setting of a stirring text continues to inspire. The text speaks...

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

For All the Saints, Vol. 2: Hymn Preludes for Funerals

Here is a long-awaited sequal to Robert Hobby's first volume. A great help to church musicians, Hobby offers hymns appropriate for memorial and funeral services...

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: All Saints; Easter; Funeral; General

9780800679101

This Joyful Eastertide

John Ferguson offers a playful setting for 2-part choir and organ.

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Easter

9781506413990

Mary at the Tomb

Here is the second Easter anthem you have been looking for! Lyric and introspective, choirs and congregations alike will welcome the sound and the message.

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

9780800656942

Thou Shalt Know Him

This piece by Canadian composer Mark Sirett is exquisite in every way, from its rich harmonic writing to its poignant text.

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

Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days

A beautiful anthem based on an English folk tune, perfect for Ash Wednesday or any time throughout Lent.

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

As We Gather At Your Table

K. Lee Scott composed this version of his successful SATB anthem for the Augsburg Easy Choirbook, vol. 2. It is interesting, unique accessible music for communion and general use. Voicing: SAB, kybd

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Communion; General

9780800678081

The Lamb

John Ferguson has crafted a sensitive setting of this William Blake poem that is gentle and profound.

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

9781506447544

Jesus Loves Me

Here is a winner in all respects! The writing is in a soft jazz style and, with the addition of saxophone, is a piece choirs will ask to return to time after time.

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

9780800656515

Christ Jesus Lay in Death's Strong Bands

An exuberant setting of Martin Luther's celebrated Easter hymn, this anthem is appropriate for the Easter season and any festive service celebrating communion or Christ's work on the cross.

Voicing: A cappella; SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Communion; Easter

9781506408538

Augsburg Organ Library: Reformation

From classic chorales to global songs, enjoy these marvelous hymns of grace and faith arranged by top composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Voicing: Organ
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Communion; Confirmation/Affirmation; General; Pentecost; Reformation

9781506413600

God's Son Has Made Me Free

This 4-part arrangement of movement 2 of Edvard Grieg's 4 Psalmen is an accessible, must-have arrangement for your choir.

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter; Reformation

Canticle of the Turning: My Soul Cries Out with a Joyful Shout

A children's or youth choir could sing the first verse of this flexible arrangement, with an adult choir joining on the refrain and leading subsequent verses.

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

Where Shepherds Lately Knelt

Carl Schalk lovingly crafted a melody for this Jaroslav Vajda text, which asks us to imagine ourselves as part of the continuing incarnation story. A beautiful, classic anthem.

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

9780800646523

The Day of Resurrection!

This wonderful Easter anthem, based on a text by John of Damascus, is a celebratory declaration of Christ's resurrection. The alternating meters are easy to follow...

Voicing: SAB/3-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter

9781451451665

Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

Probably the quintessential Easter hymn is here given an updated arrangement by Aaron David Miller for unison choir, descant, congregation, brass quintet, and organ...

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Easter