It was a matter of timing, so it couldn’t be helped. I’m hoping you didn’t miss it, but I would understand if you did. I’m referring to a second printed volume of CW: Accompaniment for Services which was released about a year after the first. The longer title of the second volume explains its reason for existence: CW: Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition. It is a second, hard copy accompaniment volume that supports settings and various elements of The Service that are available in CW: Service Builder (CW:SB) but do not appear in the print hymnal.

As it became clear which orders of service and actual service settings would fit in the print hymnal and which would not, the wheels were set in motion to locate all of the desired orders of service and service settings in CW:SB. So while the first Accompaniment for Services volume supported everything for Settings One, Two, and Three, and Morning and Evening Prayer, a second volume was needed to cover virtually every other liturgical element that is available only in CW:SB.

For example, did you wish to have your congregation continue its past practice of worshiping according to Divine Service 1 (as it was called in CW: Supplement)? That setting of The Service, composed by Dr. Kermit Moldenhauer, is now known as Setting Four in CW:SB. Dr. Moldenhauer kindly provided updated versions of the “Kyrie,” Gospel Acclamation, and Preface Dialog, to match the pattern of the other CW21 settings of The Service. Since Setting Four appears only in CW:SB, its keyboard resources are printed in Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition. That includes three different versions (organ, piano, simplified keyboard, pp. 34-105), along with all of the Gospel Acclamations with their proper verses appointed for each Sunday and festival (pp. 260-305).

For further example, did you wish to have your congregation continue its past practice of worshiping according to Divine Service 2 (as it was called in CW: Supplement)? That setting of The Service mirrored the past Lutheran practice of singing the ancient canticles of the liturgy to popular hymn tunes. For CW21, the texts of the canticles (“Gloria in Excelsis”; “Sanctus”; “Agnus Dei”) were recast in metrical verse and set once again to various hymn tunes. Selecting Settings Six through Ten as the order of service in CW:SB makes all 77 of those metrical canticles available (though they are just as available for swapping out with the canticles of Settings One through Five as well). Numbering these canticles 1001 to 1077 in CW:SB aligns with the numbering shown in Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition (pp. 108-188), assuring keyboardists that they are playing the same hymn tune that has been printed in the bulletin.

Morning Prayer (Matins) and Evening Prayer (Vespers) each have one setting in the print hymnal. An additional setting of each is included in CW:SB. Labeled in CW:SB as Morning Prayer (alternate) and Evening Prayer (alternate), the settings of these two services of the daily office are both by Marty Haugen. Released in WELS in 2002 in a volume entitled New Service Settings, you may already be familiar with the alternate Matins service, which many referred to as “Haugen Morning Praise.” Some may previously have become familiar with Haugen’s “Holden Evening Prayer” which is the alternate Vespers service in CW:SB. The keyboard resources for these two CW:SB alternate settings are on pp. 202-235 in Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition.

A relatively small percentage of WELS congregations make use of the one-year lectionary, referred to in the past as the historic lectionary. When selecting the one-year lectionary in the account settings of CW:SB, all of the propers for that lectionary automatically come into play (scripture readings, Prayers of the Day, Hymns of the Day). In terms of keyboard music, that meant provision would need to be made for all of the appointed proper verses of all of the Gospel Acclamations of the one-year lectionary. All of the acclamation music for the one-year lectionary is included in Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition, as well as the accompaniments for all of the minor festivals and occasions common to both the three-year and one-year lectionaries (pp. 306 to 519).

Three items that would typically see relatively limited use are a Spanish version of Setting Three (pp. 6-32), proper preface minister chant for Settings One to Four (pp. 190-201), and an adaptation of Luther’s German Mass and Order of Worship (pp. 236-256). The accompaniments for these items that appear only in CW:SB are printed in Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition.

Setting Five in CW:SB was the final setting of The Service to be included in CW21 resources. All of its accompaniment resources are in downloadable pdf format at NPH’s Musician’s Resource.

Because it includes all of the accompaniment music for Setting Four, all of the 77 hymn tune canticle settings native to Settings Six to Ten and available for Settings One to Ten, and the full keyboard accompaniment of the Morning and Evening Prayer alternate settings by Haugen, I hope you haven’t missed this additional volume entitled Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition. There’s a lot more in CW:SB than could ever have been placed in a single print hymnal. The availability of Accompaniment for Services—Service Builder Edition is meant to allow your congregation to benefit from as much of it as you decide to use.

This article in Devote Yourself was contributed by the team that previously created and distributed Worship the Lord. View past worship-related articles at worship.welsrc.net/downloads-worship/worship-the-lord.