Sometimes I Feel
Like a Motherless Child
Two Parts Three Parts
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child is one of the most pensive spirituals ever written.
Living and working with this music, if only for a brief time, will provide the young singers an opportunity to thoughtfully consider the intolerances, injustices and suffering that was the product of slavery in American history.
The three-part setting fits– treb/C, C, B.
The two-part setting fits– treb/C, B.
An all-boys choirs is not the only voicings for which this work is suitable. Check the two-part or the three-part variable voicing charts for other options.
Words and Music: Spiritual
Arrangerd: Samuel Driggers
Voicing: Two- and Three-part variable with piano.
CP Catalog numbers: Two-part T1008214; Three-part S97690
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