The Oxford book of spirituals / edited by Moses Hogan.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Hogan, Moses.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituals (Songs).

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with piano.

African Americans--Music.

African Americans.

Genre:

Songs.

Music.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 score (xviii, 236 pages) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]

Language Note:

English words.

Summary:

African American spirituals comprise one of the world's greatest and best-loved bodies of music. The Oxford Book of Spirituals is the first anthology to present a comprehensive survey of the genre's repertoire -- its principal composers, themes, and forms -- in a way that is at once stylistically authentic, historically meaningful, and intended for practical use both in worship and in concert. This collection features a rich array of songs, both familiar and less familiar, arranged for SATB choir by twenty-eight of the most significant American composers and presented in chronological order from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.

Contents:

Listen to the lambs / R. Nathaniel Dett

Swing low, sweet chariot / harmonized by Carl Diton ; Elliot Schenck, arr.

My Lord, what a mornin' / H.T. Burleigh, arr.

Jesus is a rock in a weary lan' / John W. Work, arr.

Ezekiel saw de wheel / Noble Cain, arr.

Here's one / William Grant Still, arr.

Let us break bread together / William Lawrence, arr.

If I got my ticket, can I ride? / Robert Shaw, arr.

Little innocent lamb / Marshall Bartholomew, collected and arr.

Great day / Warren Martin, arr.

Any how / Evenlyn La Rue Pittman, arr.

Daniel, Daniel, servant of the Lord / Undine S. Moore

Fix me, Jesus / Hall Johnson, arr.

Amen / Jester Hairston, arr.

A city called Heaven / Leonard de Paur, arr.

Were you there? / Norman Luboff, arr.

I want God's heaven to be mine / Betty Jackson King, arr.

The lily of the valley / Wendell Whalum, arr.

Keep your lamps! / Andre Thomas, arr.

Witness / Jack Halloran, arr.

My good Lord's done been here / Lee Cloud, arr.

Go, tell it on the mountain / Roland M. Carter, arr.

Don't you let nobody turn you 'round / Lena J. McLin, arr.

Glory to the newborn King / Robert L. Morris, arr.

By an' by / Alice Parker, arr.

Look what dey doin' to Jesus / Richard Jackson, arr.

The Battle of Jericho / Moses Hogan, arr.

Lord, how come me here? / Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, arr.

Notes:

For mixed chorus, in part with soloists; unacc. or with piano acc. (one piece with acc. of congas; one piece also with flute).

Includes piano part, in some cases for rehearsal only; some pieces include parts for other instruments.

Includes introd., notes on the composers and arrangers, and "A note on dialect" by James Weldon Johnson.

ISBN:

0193863049

OCLC:

48565825