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Sometimes I Feel
Like a Motherless Child
Two Parts
Three
Parts
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child is one of the most pensive spirituals ever written.
Living and working with this music, if only for a brief time, will provide the
young singers an opportunity to thoughtfully consider the intolerances, injustices and suffering that was the product of slavery in American history.
The three-part setting fits-- treb/C, C, B.
The two-part setting fits-- treb/C, B.
An all-boys choirs is
not the only voicings for which this work is suitable. Check the
two-part
or the three-part
variable voicing charts for other options.
Words and Music: Spiritual
Arrangerd: Samuel
Driggers
Voicing: Two- and Three-part
variable with piano.
CP Catalog numbers:
Two-part T1008214; Three-part S97690
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