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Lift Every Voice and Sing: alto part

The alto part of Lift Every Voice and Sing in G, from A3 to Ab4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words under the tune, mostly on B, E and D, and climbs to its top G-sharp, a sixth under the tune, on "rise, High" and "sun, Of".

Range
A3 to Ab4
Key
G
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How to learn the alto part

  1. 01 · Your part

    Hear your part on its own until the tune of it is in your ear.

  2. 02 · With the others

    Hear it with the others, so you know where it sits in the chord.

  3. 03 · Sing it

    Sing it with the others under you and watch each note light up as you land it. The mic listens only while it plays, and nothing is recorded.

About Lift Every Voice and Sing

Words: James Weldon Johnson (1900)

Tune: J. Rosamond Johnson (1900)

Lift Every Voice and Sing has words by James Weldon Johnson and music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. James wrote the poem for Lincoln's birthday in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1900, where 500 schoolchildren first sang it. By 1920 the NAACP was calling it the "Negro national anthem". Our arrangement is read from Rosamond Johnson's own four voice parts in the earliest known printing, by Jos. W. Stern of New York in 1900, a semitone lower and smoothed for beginners. Where he has every voice sing "Sing a song full of the faith" in octaves, the lower parts hold his organ's chords under the tune. This is the first verse for 2 to 4 singers, broad and stately.

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  • Your notes light upEach note shows where you landed, and a hint when to go up or down.
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