Church Music

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Hymns

• Where Shall We Go — Words by Isaac Watts based on Psalm 132. Composed for the 2023 Bicentennial of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Waynesboro, Virginia. [Permission is granted to print, perform, and stream for any non-commercial use.]

Psalm and Canticle tones

These are tones in the Lutheran and Anglican tradition for singing Psalms or other biblical texts pointed for singing (as found in many Lutheran hymnals, or in a traditional Anglican version found here). Any tone can be used with any text.

• Attende cælum — A tone composed for the response to the 11th reading at the Easter Vigil (from the Song of Moses, Deuteronomy 32:1–4, 7, 36a, 43a, and Gloria patri).
• A simple Psalm tone composed for congregational use at the 2023 Bicentennial of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Waynesboro, Virginia.

Hymn preludes for organ

• Caithness (E♭ major) / Caithness (D major) — The tune is from the Edinburgh Psalter of 1635 and is set with texts such as “O Lord, throughout These Forty Days,” “O! for a Closer Walk with God,” and “Christ, When for Us You Were Baptized.”
• Engelberg (introduction) — The tune is by Charles V. Sanford (1852–1924) and is set with texts such as “We Know That Christ Is Raised,” “When in Our Music God Is Glorified,” and “All Praise to Thee, for Thou, O King Divine.”
• Lasst uns erfreuen (E♭ major) / Lasst uns erfreuen (D major) — The tune is from Geistliche kirchengesänge (Köln 1623) and is set with texts such as “All Creatures of Our God and King,” “Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones,” and “Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds.”
• Potsdam — The tune is from the Church Psalter of 1854 and is set with texts such as “’Tis Good, Lord, to Be Here!” and “Breathe on Me, Breath of God.”

Hymn introductions and descants for solo instrument and organ

• Antioch Fanfare for B♭ trumpet and organ — A short fanfare which can be used as the introduction to the hymn. Includes score and trumpet part. The tune is by G. F. Handel (and Lowell Mason) and set primarily with “Joy to the World.”
• St. Louis Introduction for violin and organ — The tune is by Lewis H. Redner (1831–1908) and is set with “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”