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Simple Gifts: alto part

The alto part of Simple Gifts in G, from B3 to B4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words beneath the tune, most often a third below, repeating notes where the tune moves.

Range
B3 to B4
Key
G
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  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 Simple Gifts

Words: Joseph Brackett (attributed; usually dated 1848)

Tune: Joseph Brackett (attributed; usually dated 1848)

Simple Gifts is a Shaker dancing song, usually credited to Elder Joseph Brackett and dated 1848, though the copy in Mary Hazzard's songbook is unsigned and undated. The words of its second half, about bowing, bending and turning, were dance directions. Our melody is read from that copy, now in the Winterthur Library, every pitch as she wrote it, moved from C to G. It is for 2 to 4 singers: the alto and tenor sing the words close beneath the tune on easy repeated notes, and the bass holds the low notes on "oo".

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