Augsburg Fortress

Peace, Be Still: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Volume 3

In this third collection of hymn texts from the pen of Susan Palo Cherwien, we are offered thirty elegant poems intended to be sung by a worshiping assembly.

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9781506422220

Come, Beloved of the Maker: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien, Vol. 2

From the writer of hymn texts such as "O Blessed Spring" and "Rise, O Church, like Christ Arisen" comes this second collection of expressive texts for worship....

Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780806698090

O Blessed Spring: Hymns of Susan Palo Cherwien

Twenty-seven of Susan Palo Cherwien's hymn texts are collected in this volume, many of them set to music by a number of today's top composers, including Robert...

Voicing: Organ; Piano
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult
Use: Lent & Holy Week

9780800656799

Holy Woman, Graceful Giver

Anne Krentz Organ has set each stanza of “Holy Woman, Graceful Giver” from All Creation Sings to accompany assembly singing on piano or organ with C instrument.

Voicing: Unison
Difficulty: Easy
Use: Lent & Holy Week; Ordination

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To God Will I Sing: Vocal Solos for the Church Year (Medium High)

Here in a single volume are vocal solos that encompass the entire church year. Diverse in style, with compositions from seven centuries of the finest sacred...

Voicing: Solo vocal
Difficulty: Medium-Difficult

9780800674335

Easter Carol: In the Fair Morning

A lyric and gentle anthem for Easter morning! Scored for two-part mixed voices and piano on a text by Susan Palo Cherwien.

Voicing: 2 pt mxd, Pno
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: Easter

Creator God, Who Gave Us Life

Susan Palo Cherwien and Mark Sedio team up to offer a lovely composition that is accessible to choirs of all sizes.

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

9781506425764

By Grace

With sustained legato lines and subtly shifting harmonies, Cherwien’s writing is both graceful and intriguing. Based on Ephesians, this is the perfect text for Reformation Sunday.

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

As the Dark Awaits the Dawn

In this NEW setting, Carl Schalk has arranged his original Advent melody for a cappella choir, providing rich harmonies and lyrical text painting to carry the stirring text by Susan Palo Cherwien.

Voicing: SATB
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Advent

Harvest Gold

From the masterful minds of Susan Palo Cherwien and David Cherwien comes a new composition that is accessible for choirs of all sizes.

Voicing: 2-part mixed
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Use: General; Thanksgiving

9781506425801

In Sacred Manner

Modeled after chant, this austere and reverent piece pulls in the listener with a sense of motion and beautiful harmony. The simple setting allows the beauty of...

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

9780806697147

Come, Beloved of the Maker

David and Susan Cherwien offer all that is new and beautiful in this elegant setting. Susan has written a profound text with poetic images of Epiphany and...

Voicing: SATB/4-part mixed
Difficulty: Medium

9780800675158

O Infinite Greatness

From the creative team of Susan Palo Cherwien and David Cherwien comes this new work for SATB choir and organ.

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

9781506426143

You, Christ, Have Been Our Heritage

David Cherwien has crafted a new tune and hymn concertato for the final hymn text written by Susan Palo Cherwien, which highlights key stories in Jesus’ life. A beautifully crafted text and setting useful throughout the year.

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

Dust, Remember You Are Splendor

Susan Palo Cherwien’s poetry brings new imagery and depth to the traditional Ash Wednesday themes of dust and repentance. Composer Anne Krentz Organ writes original music which underscores the hopeful and contemplative text.

Voicing: SAB, Pno
Use: Ash Wednesday; Lent & Holy Week

What Joyous Song Unfolding

A gently contoured melody uplifts the poetry of Susan Cherwien in this graceful anthem by Zebulon Highben. The music is largely 2-part mixed with an expressive SATB a cappella third stanza.

Voicing: SATB, Org
Difficulty: Medium
Use: Creation; General; Praise & Thanksgiving

In the Fair Morning

Evelyn Larter initially wrote this uplifting Easter piece as a vocal solo in the collection “In the Fair Morning: Vocal Solos for the Easter Season” and here has rescored it for SATB choir.   

Voicing: SATB, Pno
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

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

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