Singers of all ages love to perform partner songs, and the Partners in Praise Series overflows with traditional melodies arranged in partner song fashion for children's, youth and adult choirs. Each songbook in the series provides a wonderful source of easily-prepared titles for worship and Christian school concerts, as well as reproducible song and narration sheets . . . no need to buy additional copies for the singers! Add the delightful short narratives before each song and create a medley of two or more songs for children's chapel, special Sunday school programs, vacation Bible school and adult fellowship events. Combine several groups of singers and perform all six songs with narration for a special 15-20 minute musical program. Partners in . . . Spirituals, the first installment in the series, includes six partner song arrangements of some of the best-loved spirituals of all time. Great for performance throughout the year, they also are appropriate for special occasions such as Christmas and Easter, Ascension, Christ the King and Pentecost, All Saints' and Lent, communion and peace Sunday, and evangelism or stewardship. Titles: * Glory Bound (This Train / When the Saints Go Marchin' In) * Peace Like a River, Kum Ba Yah * Good News! (Go, Tell It on the Mountain) * Carry Me Home (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Deep River) * Rise and Shine! * Sing with the Spirit! (I'm Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sing / I'm Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing)

An outstanding addition to our popular Partners in Praise Series, this collection features six short partner song arrangements by Jean Anne Shafferman that can be sung by children's, youth AND adult choirs. Add the delightful short narratives before each song to create an inspiring medley for worship, special fellowship or Sunday school programs, and school concerts -- also great for African-American History Month or Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Adult choirs will love singing them for summer worship or as easily prepared, one-rehearsal anthems! Reproducible song and narration sheets are included. Titles: * In That Great, Gettin' Up Mornin' / Great Day * Walk Together, Children / I Got Shoes * Hush! Somebody's Callin' My Name / New Name in Glory * Ain-a That Good News / Amen! * This Little Light of Mine / Shine on Me * We Shall Overcome / We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder

An outstanding addition to our popular Partners in Praise Series, this collection features six short partner song arrangements by Jean Anne Shafferman that can be sung by children's, youth AND adult choirs. Add the delightful short narratives before each song to create an inspiring medley for worship, special fellowship or Sunday school programs, and school concerts -- also great for African-American History Month or Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Adult choirs will love singing them for summer worship or as easily prepared, one-rehearsal anthems! Reproducible song and narration sheets are included. A fully orchestrated CD recording is available separately. Titles include: In That Great, Gettin' Up Mornin' / Great Day * Walk Together, Children / I Got Shoes * Hush! Somebody's Callin' My Name / New Name in Glory * Ain-a That Good News / Amen! * This Little Light of Mine / Shine on Me * We Shall Overcome / We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder.

Harry Burleigh's music falls into three categories: secular, religious, and sacred. This 200-page collection is a treasure of history made usable in his fine arrangements. "Deep River" was published in 1917, the first of many to make Burleigh well-known as a composer. This title is available in SmartMusic.

Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. A companion website contains jubilee troupe personnel, recordings, and profiles of 85 jubilee groups. Please go to: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/graham/spirituals/

There's nothing more fun than singing a partner song, and there's no better way to develop independent 2-part singing with your young performers. GRAB A PARTNER! by well-known composers Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse, features 12 terrific partner songs, each utilizing a well-known melody, including folk songs (Shoo Fly!, Zum Gali Gali), Christmas favorites (Up on the Housetop, Silent Night), spirituals (All Night, All Day, Kum Ba Ya), popular songs (Give My Regards to Broadway, Take Me Out to the Ball Game) and more! The Teacher's Handbook includes reproducible song sheets and appropriate easy-to-teach staging suggestions. So GRAB A PARTNER! and let's go!-Recommended for grades 2-7.-Staging Suggestions included.-Reproducible Student Song Sheets included.

A New Perspective for the Use of Dialect in African American Spirituals: History, Context, and Linguistics investigates the use of the African American English (AAE) dialect in the musical genre of the spiritual. Perfect for conductors and performers alike, this book traces the history of the dialect, its use in early performance practice, and the sociolinguistic impact of the AAE dialect in the United States. Felicia Barber explores AAE’s development during the African Diaspora and its correlations with Southern States White English (SSWE) and examines the dialect’s perception and how its weaponization has impacted the performance of the genre itself. She provides a synopsis of research on the use of dialect in spirituals from the past century through the analysis of written scores, recordings, and research. She identifies common elements of early performance practice and provides the phonological and grammatical features identified in early practice. This book contains practical guide for application of her findings on ten popular spiritual texts using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It concludes with insights by leading arrangers on their use of AAE dialect as a part of the genre and practice.