Lift Up Your Voice!

Lift Up Your Voice! is a carefully curated collection of 40 modern hymn descants, written to deepen worship and elevate hymn singing through sound that is reverent, radiant, and practical. Featuring SATB hymn descants for some of the world’s most popular and beloved hymns, this collection offers music directors a fresh way to enrich familiar repertoire. Each descant is designed to sit naturally above the hymn tune, enhancing rather than overpowering it. These soprano descants for church choir are melodically expressive, vocally comfortable, and harmonically sensitive, allowing choirs to add brilliance without disrupting congregational flow. Especially effective in the final stanza, these congregational hymn descants lift the music upward and invite a fuller moment of praise. Written with real choirs in mind, these descants are practical, easy to sing, and fit nicely above standard hymn harmonizations, making them suitable for choirs of all sizes. Moreover, the collection works well as church choir hymn arrangements across denominations. The descants integrate easily with standard hymnals and are well-suited for regular worship, festivals, and seasonal services. Perfect for: Church and cathedral choirs Music directors seeking fresh hymn treatments Festival services, Easter, Christmas, and special occasions Congregations that cherish traditional hymns enriched with new color At its heart, Lift Up Your Voice! is about worship, not display. These hymn descants serve the song, the choir, and the congregation, lifting voices upward and deepening the shared act of worship. Some hymns in the collection: It Is Well with My Soul (When Peace Like a River) – SATB with Soprano Descant Love Divine, All Loves Excelling – SATB with Soprano Descant When I Survey the Wondrous Cross – SATB with Soprano Descant Crown Him with Many Crowns – SATB with Soprano Descant To God Be the Glory – SATB with Soprano Descant O God, Our Help in Ages Past – SATB with Soprano Descant All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name – SATB with Soprano Descant All Creatures of Our God and King – SATB with Soprano Descant A Mighty Fortress Is Our God – SATB with Soprano Descant Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise – SATB with Soprano Descant The Church Has One Foundation – SATB with Soprano Descant O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Abridge) – SATB with Soprano Descant I Sing the Mighty Power of God (Materna) – SATB with Soprano Descant Come, Thou Holy Spirit, Come – SATB with Soprano Descant The Lord in Zion Reigneth – SATB with Soprano Descant Pleasant Are Thy Courts Above – SATB with Soprano Descant Cross of Jesus – SATB with Soprano Descant I Do Believe (Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee) – SATB with Alto/Soprano Descant Who Is on the Lord’s Side? – SATB with Soprano Descant Away in a Manger – SATB with Soprano Descant Once in Royal David’s City – SATB with Soprano Descant Silent Night, Holy Night – SATB with Soprano Descant The First Noel – SATB with Soprano Descant While Shepherds Watched – SATB with Soprano Descant