Guide for This Train (Sound of Singing Boys)

HOW TO USE THIS PIECE

This Train

(click voicing to view and hear online)

Two-part Three-part

This Train is an American folk song kin to both the African-American spiritual and the county-gospel genre. It has no direct reference to God, but it speaks of a train that is bound for glory. The three-part setting is one of Bob Siltman's most popular arrangements. It is now available in both two and three parts. In the two-part setting, Part I is appropriate for Boy Trebles and/or Cambiatas (boys in the first phase of change). Part two is written in the bass clef and is limited to the comfortable singing area of changing voice Baritones (the second phase of change) of D-D (above and below middle C). In the three-part voicing, Part I is for Cambiata; Part II for Adolescent Baritone I; and Part III for Adolescent Baritone II.

The piece may be used with mixed groups as well. See the two-part or three-part variable voicing chart.

American Folk Song

Arranged by Bob Siltman

Piano Score by Tom Stokes

Two-part Variable Voicing with Piano (CP Catalog #U1106208)

Three-part Variable Voicing with Piano (CP Catalog #U978114)

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You may Order or from J.W. Pepper

USE KEYWORDS: This Train Siltman Cambiata Press

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When you click the voicing of this song you will be able to access an engraved copy of the piece. When the new page appears, if you haven't already downloaded the scorch plug-in, you will be asked to do so. This plug-in gives you access to all the scores on the Cambiata Press website. After the music appears on your screen, there are TWO WAYS to view and hear it:

1. Click the "play" icon and you will hear the piece played electronically, and as it plays, the cursor will lead your vision through the piece.

2. Click the "Hear Choir with Real Player" link (upper right hand corner) to hear a choral ensemble sing the piece. Use the Sibelius "page" icon to move the pages of the engraved copy manually as you listen. Do not click the "play" icon while the ensemble is singing or you will hear both renditions simultaneously. Download Real Player.

Performed by the UCA Cambiata Chamber Chorale,

Don L. Collins, Director

The choral rendition is the three-part arrangement.