A Mighty Fortress

This arrangement features simple writing for the choir, historic influences, and exceptional flexibility for musical forces. As arranger William Braun notes "composer Michael Praetorius maintained that musicians need to make use of whatever forces are available." To that end, this arrangement contains suggestions for how to cover solo instrument parts with various instruments or with the organ, options for equal voices or mixed voices, and optional a cappella performance on select stanzas. With this flexibility, this setting can be performed again and again and be fresh every time—a useful feature for this stalwart hymn used annually to observe the Reformation!