Arise and Shine: Ten Easy Hymn Settings for Organ

Meditations : Accessible Hymn Settings for Solo Instrument and Organ

A varied and useful collection containing the tunes BLOTT EN DAG, FINLANDIA, GIVE ME JESUS , RUTHERFORD, and TRYGGARE KAN INGEN VARA (Children of the Heavenly Father). Easy instrumental parts for C instrument (Flute, Oboe), B-flat instrument (Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone), and downloadable Violin and Viola parts as well. The accompaniments are not quite as easy, but very manageable. Contents: Be Still My Soul Children of the Heavenly Father Day by Day Give Me Jesus The Sands of Time Are Sinking

Sing We Now of Christmas

This is a fun setting with easy SATB writing. The tune NOËL NOUVELET is used in a dance-like fashion with five verses of the traditional text, telling the Christmas story from the shepherds to the Kings. Duration 3:30 This is a fun setting with easy SATB writing. The tune NOËL NOUVELET is used in a dance-like fashion with five verses of the traditional text, telling the Christmas story from the shepherds to the Kings. Duration 3:30

Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart

Set in 6/8 with a sparkling organ accompaniment, the hymn tune MARION appears in a dance-like, sometimes ornamented fashion. Straightforward and exuberant, this anthem is easy to sing yet sounds more difficult. Duration: 3:00

The Strife Is O'er : 3 Easter Pieces for Brass Quartet, Timpani, and Organ

Experienced church musician Daniel Burton brings creativity and practicality to bear in this delightful set of three tunes. The organ parts are of medium difficulty, the brass parts less so, leading to an easy put-together and very satisfying result.

With All Your Heart

Your choir and congregation will love this original piece with a text by the composer adapted from Proverbs and Isaiah. Tranquil but resolute, the music and message are one of trust and reassurance. Simple and sweet, this music is easy to learn and rewarding to sing. Duration 3:30 Your choir and congregation will love this original piece with a text by the composer adapted from Proverbs and Isaiah. Tranquil but resolute, the music and message are one of trust and reassurance. Simple and sweet, this music is easy to learn and rewarding to sing. Duration 3:30

Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

Although through-composed (as the nature of the text might dictate), this is an easy piece to learn. A soprano soloist is optional at the beginning. There are many places where the texture is two-part mixed. Choirs of any size will enjoy singing this sweet and tuneful anthem. Duration: 3:30 Although through-composed (as the nature of the text might dictate), this is an easy piece to learn. A soprano soloist is optional at the beginning. There are many places where the texture is two-part mixed. Choirs of any size will enjoy singing this sweet and tuneful anthem. Duration: 3:30

Now the Green Blade Rises

This animated setting of the traditional Easter carol can be performed with piano or organ. It features a sprightly accompaniment and easy but varied choral writing (sometimes in canon, sometimes in augmentation, a fair amount of unison, some four-part). We think your choir will enjoy this! Duration: 3:00

Oh, Come, Little Children

Written for the 2018 National Lutheran Choir Christmas Festival, this setting of IHR KINDERLEIN KOMMET is moderately easy for the choir but can be brightened up even more by use of optional harp, oboe, and cello. A light and playful ritornello introduces the piece and each subsequent verse, and concludes as well. Playful and charming. Part of the National Lutheran Choir Series. Written for the 2018 National Lutheran Choir Christmas Festival, this setting of IHR KINDERLEIN KOMMET is moderately easy for the choir but can be brightened up even more by use of optional harp, oboe, and cello. A light and playful ritornello introduces the piece and each subsequent verse, and concludes as well. Playful and charming. Part of the National Lutheran Choir Series.

Hope in Me

Composer Terre Johnson sets an adaptation of Isaiah 40:21 in the first person, so it appears as if God is speaking through the choir in this anthem of reassurance. The violin and clarinet sometimes support and sometimes soar above the choir. Easy unison writing makes this a useful and satisfying offering, especially appropriate for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Year B. Duration: 3:00

Take My Life and Let It Be

At workshops and conventions we get many requests for good pieces for the smaller choir. This original SAB setting of a very familiar text is exactly that. The supportive keyboard part could really be piano or organ, and the choral parts are easy to sing. Simple but effective, the melody is so engaging that even a larger choir will enjoy singing it. Duration: 3:00

Hope in Me

Composer Terre Johnson sets an adaptation of Isaiah 40:21 in the first person, so it appears as if God is speaking through the choir in this anthem of reassurance. The violin and clarinet sometimes support and sometimes soar above the choir. Easy SATB writing makes this a useful and satisfying offering, especially appropriate for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Year B. Duration: 3:00

Do You Believe This?

After a short preamble, the soaring, original melody is passed back and forth between the women's and men's voices, "I am the resurrection and the life." The middle, contrasting section has the voices singing homophonically, and then the alternating material returns. A coda reminiscent of the preamble contains the title text. An easy, effective anthem which is useful at several points in the liturgical year. Duration: 4:30

Hands of God

Written for the ELCA's 25th Anniversary, the composer himself describes this as a "one-rehearsal wonder." Essentially it's a brand new hymn tune and text arranged for SATB and piano, with optional trumpet and soprano descant. The tune is sweeping and majestic, the choral writing easy and effective. The tag line "God's work. Our hands" has been at the heart of the ELCA church since its inception, and the text reinforces that message. Duration 3:30 Written for the ELCA's 25th Anniversary, the composer himself describes this as a "one-rehearsal wonder." Essentially it's a brand new hymn tune and text arranged for SATB and piano, with optional trumpet and soprano descant. The tune is sweeping and majestic, the choral writing easy and effective. The tag line "God's work. Our hands" has been at the heart of the ELCA church since its inception, and the text reinforces that message. Duration 3:30

O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

This well-known text is set to an original melody which has the lilting simplicity of a folk song. The first stanza is a solo (or in unison). The second stanza has the melody in the tenor with the choir accompanying on a neutral syllable. The third and fourth stanzas have SATB settings which differ slightly. The accompaniment provides attractive support and short flowing interludes between stanzas. Easy and lyrical. Duration: 3:00

Rejoice and Be Merry : Traditional English Carols

For flute and piano (or organ), this collection contains seven carols. Most are quite familiar, a very few perhaps less so. Easy to put together and enjoyable for the listener, these settings are useful for any service or occasion during the Christmas season.Contents:The Cherry Tree CarolA Child This Day Is BornThe Holly and the IvyI Saw Three Ships Come Sailing InNow the Holly Bears a BerryRejoice and Be MerryTruth Sent from Above

How Can I Keep from Singing

This easy but effective festival anthem begins with the text, "I Sing the Mighty Power of God" set to original music by the composer. Then, in a gentler contrast, the traditional melody and text to "How Can I Keep from Singing" are heard. The closing section includes elements of both tunes and texts. Optional solo instrument or handbells add to the celebration (10 bells needed out of a three octave set). Duration: 3:30

For the Music of Creation

An easy but striking congregational hymn setting of the tune RUSTINGTON to a text by Shirley Erena Murray. Stanzas one and three are in unison (three with descanting "ahs"). Stanza two invites the choir and even the congregation to sing in four parts! This can be as streamlined as you need it to be, but can also expand by use of the optional Brass Quintet, Handbells, Timpani, and Crash Cymbals. Instrumental Parts include: Trumpets I and II in B-flat and C, Horn in F, Trombone I and II, Hanbells (3 or 5 octaves), Timpani, Crash Cymbals

People, Look East

Commissioned by the Thunder Bay Symphony Chorus, this is a creative setting of the familiar original material. There is a full orchestra accompaniment and a piano reduction which also works quite well to convey the spirit of the larger forces. The choral parts are challenging in spots where interpolations are written and the rhythm changes, but much of it is easy and fun to sing. The composer has written original music for two inner verses which provides a lovely contrast and variety to the main theme. These two verses are set to the same melody, the latter one featuring a soloist in a medium range. The overall effect is celebratory and joyful!