Brief African American Spiritual Lecture Recital Eastern Michigan University

Описание: African American Spirituals Arranged by Contemporary Arrangers for High School Soprano & Alto Ensemble


Table of Contents
0:05 - Introduction
Lecture
1:18 - Historical Context
8:09 - The Development of the Spiritual
10:38 - Spiritual Transformation to Art Music
14:26 - Types of Spirituals
17:23 - Performance Considerations
21:12 - Spiritual Arrangers
Performance
28:38 - Somebody's Knockin' at yo' do'
31:44 - Let Me Fly
35:48 - Scandalize My Name
41:14 - Ol' Time Religion
46:43 - Thank you






Resources
African American Spirituals. (n.d.). Retrieved from Libary Of Congress:

https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197495/

Buchanan, M. (2005). Teaching Music Through Perfromance in choir. Chicago: GIA
Publications.

Herman, H. (1987). Our Afro-American Heritage in music. Chicago: Carl Fisher Music stores.

Hogan, M. (2002). The Oxford book of Spirituals. New York: Oxford University Press.

James, H. (1987). Black Music in America. New York: Corwell.

Johnson, J. W. (1969). The Books of American Negro Spirituals. Da Capo Press.

Jones, A. (1986). Black Songs: The Forge and the Flame. New York: Paragon.

Powell, R. a. (2011). Spirituals for upper voices. Oxford University Press.

Thomas, A. J. (2007). Way over in Beulah lan'. Dayton Ohio: Heritage Music Press.
Caldwell, Hansonia African American Music: Spirituals (third edition. Culver City, California: Ikoro Communications, Inc. 2003)
Koskoff, Ellen, Ed. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Volume 3: The United States and Canada (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2001) pp 624-629; also pp523-524, pp68-69
Hitchcock, H. Wiley and Stanley Sadie The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: Macmillan, 1986) pp 284-290
The Performing Arts Encyclopedia on the Library of Congress web portal contains many examples of digitized recordings and sheet music of spirituals.
The Performing Arts Encyclopedia also houses a special digitized American choral music collection which features arrangements of spirituals by composers like Henry T Burleigh and R Nathaniel Dett.
"Songs Related to the Abolition of Slavery" (Songs of America)