On Easter Morn

Four inventive preludes for use during the Easter season.

Featuring colorful art with simple, easy-to-read text, Jesus Rose on Easter Morn tells the Easter story. The Listen! Look! series features lively board books for young children, which introduce Bible stories and engage children as they listen and look. The simple text and repeating lines foster…

Experience the astonishment of the women who have just discovered Jesus' empty tomb. Even as they worry that their lord's body was stolen, he appears alive before them! "So they (Mary Magdalene and the other Mary) departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell His disciples.…

That Easter Morn recalls the awe of the miraculous resurrection of our Lord; celebrates the forgiveness that is ours through Christ's suffering and death on our behalf; and encourages our joyous response as His dear children. The Easter hymn, "O Sons and Daughters of the King," LW 130, serves as the…

…to the cross on our behalf, then rose from the grave in victory over sin, death, and the devil -- also on our behalf. This book begins with the two disciples borrowing a colt for Jesus to ride into Jerusalem, continues with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and, finally, Easter morning.

Preludes on well-known hymns for this joyous season. All include pedals. Suitable as introductions or alternation stanzas.

Preludes on well-known hymns for this joyous season. All include pedals. Suitable as introductions or alternation stanzas.

…Music for a Sunday Morning, this suite consists of a Prelude, Chaconne, and Rondel (approximately 3 minutes long, each). These movements, based on non-hymn material, are designed to serve as a prelude, voluntary, and postlude. This festive work with optional pedal is suitable for the Easter season.

During Holy Week and Easter when practice time is hard to find, these ten easy preludes for manuals by J. Wayne Kerr are the ready-to-play solution. Collection includes three preludes for Palm Sunday, two for Holy Thursday, three for Good Friday, and two for Easter. May also be played on piano.

Based on a Provencal carol tune, Healey Willan has set the text by John of Damasus for Unison voices and descant. English translation by John Mason Neale, this anthem serves well on Easter morning.

Based on a Provencal carol tune, Healey Willan has set the text by John of Damasus for Unison voices and descant. English translation by John Mason Neale, this anthem serves well on Easter morning.

…tomb on Easter morning; as the dawn brightens, they go out to share the news and joy of Easter. Plan this quickly learned and accessible piece for any choir especially for Easter Sunrise or Vigil, or throughout the Easter season. With darkened hearts, through gloomy haze, They faced the morning's…

…joyful print depicts the disciples Peter and John as they investigate Jesus' tomb on Easter morning, empty of everything but grave linens. "[Peter] saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.…

…Music for a Sunday Morning, this suite consists of a Prelude, Chaconne, and Rondel (approximately 3 minutes long, each). These movements, based on non-hymn material, are designed to serve as a prelude, voluntary, and postlude. This festive work with optional pedal is suitable for the Easter season.

…As your family waits for Easter, you can focus on the real reason we celebrate this most wonderful, most amazing day. This collection of fifteen daily devotions, Bible verses, activities, and prayers will guide your family through the days leading up to Easter. Each day features something…

An easy and practical setting of a familiar Easter hymn. Ideal piece to integrate beginning choirs into the Easter Sunday morning liturgy.

This morning song of praise is especially appropriate for the Easter season. The text highlights praise of the risen Christ by the created universe, using contemporary harmonies and a rousing keyboard accompaniment. The extended final Alleluia section quotes LASST UNS ERFREUEN.

…it is to be faithful on the basis of the Word alone—the disciples are testimony to that fact! If you had been there, it would not have been any easier for you than it is today. The evidence you have is what the disciples and the women had, also on that Easter morning: the promise of His Word,…

…Oelschlaeger’s text, an impressionistic reflection of the Easter morning story. The freely chant-like choral writing shows a carefully nuanced attention to the text and hints at familiar Easter tunes. The Alleluia chant refrain is based on the Gregorian antiphon, "Lapis revolutus est:" The stone is…

This hymn setting by Healey Willan is scored for SATB choir and organ on the tune RATISBON. The text is by Charles Wesley. Suggested use: Morning

This collection of arrangements and compositions for the church year is intended for children who are beginning to experience singing in two-part harmony. All of these arrangements may be sung successfully in unison. The addition of the second part, which consists mainly of ostinati, canons, and…

Carl F. Schalk has composed five new motets for SATB choir a cappella based on classic Lutheran chorales. Written in a restrained contrapuntal style that is reminiscent of the 16th and 17th centuries, these choral gems exemplify the appealing harmonic language of Schalk. The five independent motets…

Charles W. Ore’s ninth installment in our longest-running organ series, which began in 1971. Full of the characteristic writing of Charles Ore, Set IX features imaginative settings of familiar tunes as well as several under-treated tunes. A highlight is "Glory Rock," a moving marriage of the tunes…

The acclaimed series continues with this finely tuned volume, offering a plethora of tune settings that are selected throughout all seasons of the church year.