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The story of the Jubilee Singers, with their songs / edited by J. B. I. [i.e. T.] Marsh.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1877 Marsh
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsh, J. B. T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jubilee singers.
- African American musicians.
- African Americans--Music.
- African Americans.
- African American choirs.
- Spirituals (Songs).
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1877.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 248 p., 1 leaf of plate : ill., music ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- 7th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1877.
- Summary:
- "Fisk University was founded in 1866 to provide higher education to African Americans who became free after the Civil War. To raise money for the institution, the school's chorus -- known as the Jubilee Singers -- began performing concerts of Negro folksongs and spirituals. Their popularity and fame spread rapidly. Before the group was disbanded in 1880, it had toured the northern states, performed at Boston's World Peace Jubilee and at the White House, sung for Queen Victoria, and toured Great Britain and Europe. This book recounts their remarkable story and is supplemented by 139 great spirituals, complete with text, and fully notated in both open score and in a two-stave keyboard reduction ideal for rehearsal and performance"
- Contents:
- The Jubilee songs: Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord!
- Swing low, sweet chariot
- Room enough
- O redeemed
- From every graveyard
- Children, we shall all be free
- Roll, Jordon, roll
- Turn back Pharaoh's army
- I'm a rolling
- Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
- I'll hear the trumpet sound
- Rise, mourners
- I've just come from the fountain
- Gwine to ride up in the chariot
- We'll die in the field
- Children, you'll be called on
- Give me Jesus
- The rocks and the mountains
- Go down, Moses
- Been a listening
- Keep me from sinking down
- I'm a trav'ling to the grave
- Many thousand gone
- Steal away
- He's the Lord of Lords
- Judgement day is rolling round
- The gospel train
- Shine, shine
- Old ship of Zion
- In the river of Jordan
- We'll stand the storm
- I'm so glad
- Come, let us all go down
- Zion's children
- Oh! holy Lord
- This old time religion
- The ten virgins
- He arose
- Save me, Lord, save
- Judgement will find you so
- He's the lily of the valley
- Prepare us
- My ship is on the ocean
- March on
- My way's cloudy
- Ride on, King Jesus
- These are my father'schildren
- Reign, Oh! Reign
- Mary and Martha
- I ain't going to die no more
- Getting ready to die
- The general roll
- I'm troubled in mind
- I'm going to live with Jesus
- Oh! let me get up
- Go, chain the lion down
- When Moses smote the water
- Oh! sinner man
- My good Lord's been here
- A little more faith in Jesus
- Did not old Pharaoh get lost?
- Wrestling Jacob
- Love-feast in heaven
- When shall I get there
- There's a meeting here to-night
- Farewell, my brother
- Inching along
- I ain't got weary yet
- Run to Jesus
- Angels waiting at the door
- Keep your lamps trimmed
- Show me the way
- I've been redeemed
- We shall walk thro' the valley
- Gabriel's trumpet's going to blow
- Lord, I wish I had a-come
- Deep river
- In bright mansions above
- My Lord, what a mourning
- We are climbing the hills of Zion
- Oh, wasn't that a wide river?
- Way over Jordan
- We'll overtake the army
- We are almost home
- Down by the river
- Wait a little while
- Hard trials
- He rose from the dead
- Good old chariot
- Grace
- Oh, yes! oh, yes!
- A happy new year
- 'Tis Jordan's river
- Good-bye, brothers
- Don't you grieve after me
- Rise and shine
- Now we take this feeble body
- Anchor in the Lord
- Lord's prayer
- John Brown's body
- Listen to the angels
- Move along
- The angels changed my name
- Bright sparkles in the churchyard
- Come down, angels
- Peter, go ring them bells
- Gideon's band
- In that great getting-up morning
- I know that my Redeemer lives
- Notes:
- "Jubilee songs": p. 125-243.
- Includes index.
- Includes portrait of the Jubilee Singers.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in red cloth, stamped in gilt. Front cover illustration of Jubilee Hall, Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee).
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Koblenzer.
- OCLC:
- 5619568
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