Go Tell It on the Mountain
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
O, Mary Don’t You Weep
Spiritual Trilogy
Directors may choose to perform these spirituals as stand-alone works or as a set. Siltman provides a musical ending for each individual work, as well as modulatory sections bween the spirituals when selected as a trilogy.
If you want to view and hear the music as it is engraved on the print copy, please see the Spiritual Trilogy as Engraved (in this online copy, there is only one system per page. The print copy will have two or more systems to the page as one finds with almost all printed choral music.
These pieces were written with early-adolescent all-boys choruses in mind, but the three-part variable voicing charts indicates how to use the piece with different age groups and voicings.
Music and Text: African-American Spirituals
Arranger: Bob Siltman
Voicing: Three-part Variable with Piano
Cambiata Press Catalog numbers:
Go Tell It on the Mountain S210216
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel S210217
O, Mary Don’t You Weep S210218
Spiritual Trilogy (all three) S980148
This work is available in E-Print.
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