This edition offers exciting arrangements that have never before appeared in print, written in an authentic idiom for three-part women's or girls' choir with piano accompaniment. The spirituals can also be performed without piano, with the lead melody always in the upper voice.

All the arrangements can be combined with the already published edition “64 Spirituals a cappella” (BA 7574) which is for SATB. To give you an example: a children's choir working with our new edition can appear with a mixed chorus that has already mastered the SATB settings. In addition twelve of the arrangements can be enhanced by instrumental accompaniments. These are to be found in the “Spirituals” edition (BA 6699) of our “ComboCom” series which offers flexible instrumental settings.

•33 exciting and varied arrangements, 80 pages
•All songs compatible with the SATB edition (BA 7574)
•12 spirituals also compatible with the flexible instrumentation edition (BA 6699)

Contents
Deep river / O happy day / Joshua / King of kings / Motherless child / Nobody knows / O sinner man / Swing low, sweet chariot / Wade in the water / Were you there / When the saints, and twenty-two other popular as well as less well-known spirituals.

The author
Graham Buckland is the music director of Regensburg University, Germany. Before then he held various leading positions at theatres and colleges in Germany and the Czech Republic. He has founded and headed a number of ensembles, demonstrating a very broad musical range that also finds expression in his compositions and publications for chorus, piano, and orchestra.


"...an excellent introduction..."
(Church Music Quarterly March 2015)

Vorwort
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Preface
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Jacob's ladder
We are climbing Jacob's Ladder
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Open the window
Open the window Noah, let the dove come in
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Go down Moses
When Israel was in Egypt's Land
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
If I could
If I could I surely would
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Joshua
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Little David
Little David, play on your harp
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Amen
Mary had a baby
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Go tell it
Go tell it on the mountain
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Hammering
Those cruel people hammering
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Were you there
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
A mumblin' word
They crucified my Lord
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Sweet music
Jesus is risen from the dead
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
King of kings
He is King of kings, he is Lord of lords
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
When the saints
O when the saints go marching in
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
My Lord
My Lord, what a mourning
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Nobody knows
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Lonseome valley
Jesus walked this lonesome valley
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Hard trials
O the foxes have holes in the ground
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
O sinner man
O sinner man, where you gonna run to
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
It's me, O Lord
It's me, it's me, it's me, O Lord
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Steal away
Steal away to Jesus
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
Librettist:
Newton, John
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Composer / Author:
Graham, E. B.
Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
This world
This world is not my home
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
Librettist:
Burton, S. D.
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
The whole world
He's got the whole world in his hands
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Good news
Good news, chariot's a-coming
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Swing low
Swing low, sweet chariot
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Michael row
Michael row the boat ashore
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Deep river
My home is over Jordan
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Roll Jordan
Roll Jordan, roll
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
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Composer / Author:
Bland, James
Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
Golden slippers
O dem golden slippers
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier
Librettist:
Bland, James
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Arranger:
Buckland, Graham
O happy day
When Jesus washed my sins away
Instrumentation:
Frauenchor (SMezA), Kinderchor (SMezA), Klavier