White Spiritual

Saints Bound for Heaven

Three-Part Four-Part

This energetic piece comes from the Sacred Harp tradition. As with many works of this genre, it uses a pentatonic scale. Conceived in a contrapual texture, every part is melodic in nature.

HIghly accessible to the beginning part-singer, the arrangement has an optional Part IV, allowing it to be sung in three-part (SSC, SAC, or SSA) or four-part (SSCB or SSAB).

This work will also fit an adult church choir with more women than men. Assign the women to Parts I, II, & III (SSA) and combine the men on Part IV.

The three-part and four-part variable voicing charts indicate how to perform the piece with different age groups.

White Spiritual

Words from Elliott’s Sacred Lyre,1828

Music by J. King and William Walker, 1840

Arranged by Buen Suerte

Three- or Four-part Variable Voicing Acappella

Cambiata Press Catalog #S97560

This work is available in E-Print.

Order printed copies from J.W. Pepper or directly from Cambiata Press. Please remember the copyright law: it is illegal to purchase a single octavo and photocopy it.

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