HOW TO USE THIS PIECE

(click title to view and hear online)

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