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I Got Shoes

 

I Got Shoes is arranged by William E. Melton who also gave us the popular Cambiata Press publication Ride the Chariot.  Both pieces are arranged in the popular choral style for spirituals that emerged in America in the early part of the twentieth century.  Arranging techniques that are typical of this type spiritual are (1) solos or section solos accompanied by the choir; (2) call and responses by soloist and choir; (3) several repeats of the “chorus”; and (4) a loud exuberant final ending.  These particular pieces are Four-Part Variable Voicing; SSCB (for groups containing changing voices) or SSAB (for older adolescents and adults who sing in choirs with significantly more women than men).

 

The four-part variable voicing charts indicates how to use the piece with different age groups.

 

Traditional Spiritual

Arranged by William E. Melton, Jr.

Four--part Variable Voicing Acappella

Cambiata Press Catalog #S980156

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