The Oxford Book of Spirituals

Description

A collection of 29 stylistically authentic spiritual arrangements for SATB choirs. The contents span the period from 1914 to 2001 and are ordered chronologically. Many of the best-known songs from the genre's most important composers and arrangers are included. The volume surveys the spiritual's entire range of themes and forms in a way that is at once stylistically authentic and historically meaningful.

• Dett: Listen to the lambs
• Diton/arr. Shenk: Swing low, sweet chariot
• Burleigh: My Lord, what a mornin'
• Work: Jesus is a rock in a weary lan'
• Cain: Ezekiel saw de wheel
• Smith: Ride the chariot
• Still: Here's one
• Lawrence: Let us break bread together
• Shaw: If I got my ticket, can I ride?
• Bartholomew: Little innocent lamb
• Martin: Great day
• Pittman: Any how
• Moore: Daniel, Daniel, servant of the Lord
• Johnson: Fix me, Jesus
• Hairston: Amen
• De Paur: A city called heaven
• Luboff: Were you there?
• King: I want God's heaven to be mine
• Whalum: Lily of the valley
• Thomas: Keep your lamps
• Halloran: Witness
• Cloud: My good Lord's done been here
• Carter: Go tell it on the mountain
• McLin: Don't you let nobody turn you 'round
• Morris: Glory to the newborn King
• Parker: By an' by
• Jackson: Look what dey doin' to Jesus
• Hogan: The battle of Jericho
• Simpson-Curenton: Lord, how come me here