We Have Come To Worship The Lord, John Carter.  Hope Publishing.  Great collection!

 

John,

 

Lighthouse Music Publishing has just published "Holy, Holy, Holy" for SATB divisi a cappella.  It is a call to worship, slow and lush with gorgeous harmonies. http://www.lighthousemusicpublications.com/catalogue/new_releases.html and should be avaialble through most music distributors, like JW Pepper and Sheet Music Plus.   I also have 2 others that have not been submitted, "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" and "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God".  These are all one verse scores.  The unpublished scores can be heard and viewed at http://www.scoreexchange.com/search?q=rick+bartlett.  Contact me directly (crickb88(a)cox.net) for any additional information.  I think you will find these miniatures contained well with the original melody but with interesting voicings - very accessible and all a cappella.

 

Good Luck,

 

Rick

I've been disappointed in many of the collections (but will order a copy of John Carter's listed below).  In addition to (a handful) of introit collections, I've opted to use short anthems for introits or to make cuts in longer anthems.  This is meager but for examples of short anthems with texts that are particularly apt to open worship consider Herbert Colvin's Surely the Lord Is In This Place (Word Publishing; nice w/ handbells or just piano), William McKie's "We Wait for Thy Loving-Kindness, O God" (Oxford); Glory to God (Bach/Christiansen; Schmitt, Hall, McCreary/Belwin); Exultate justi (Viadana; Arista+).  The downside: these require more rehearsal than a 12 or 16-bar introit from an introit collection.  Related, sometimes when the introit is especially rich, long or rehearsal-intensive, it becomes the anthem for the morning.  Eg. Randall Stroope's "Come Dwell in Solomon's Walls" (MorningStar).