Go Tell It on
the Mountain
Ezekiel Saw the
Wheel
O, Mary Don't
You Weep
Spiritual
Trilogy (all three)
Directors may choose to sing these
spirituals with their choruses or classes (and to listen to them online) as
singles; or as a trilogy (all three together). Siltman offers a final
ending to each title and a modulatory section from the previous piece to the
next in the printed copy of the trilogy. When you listen to the online
renditions, you will hear the final ending when you listen to each piece
individually, and then you will hear the three pieces combined into one with
their modulatory sections when you listen to the 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.
Traditional African-American Spirituals
Arranged by Bob Siltman
Three-part Variable Voicing
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